fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
Impasto 4 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale reddish brown, texture fine and compact, fine inclusions: grey, red, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/4, core 5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3.0%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.48 |
inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.76 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.4 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-0.08 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.76 |
black inclusions |
frequent, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |
foraminifera |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, white and black, 0.44 |