fabric type |
VEL-A-2
|
fabric previously published as |
F. 9 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Velia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, red, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
exterior and interior light red 2.5 yR 6/8, core pinkish grey 5 YR 7/2 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.2, singular 4.8), channel (0.02-3.2); void length: 0.04-4.8 |
inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-3.0 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, white, grey, clear, reddish, 0.04-1.8 |
mica |
very frequent, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, subspherical, subelongate, yellowish, 0.04-0.44 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, subspherical,subelongate, yellowish, 0.2-0.48 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, spherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-3.0 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.68 |