| fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-4
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| fabric previously published as |
Impasto 4A |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, texture fine and compact, fine to large inclusions: grey, white, red, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.0, singular 7.2), channel (0.2-0.32); void length: 0.04-1.0 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.32 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.36 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.16 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, 0.04-0.68 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.32 |
|
black inclusions |
very frequent, subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, black, <0.04-0.24 |
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brown inclusions |
singular, subspherical - subelongate, brown, 1.32 |
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