| 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 pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine and sporadic large inclusions: white, grey, brown, 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 (0.04-0.84), channel (0.2-1.0); void length: 0.04-7.2 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-7.2 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.32 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, 0.04-0.24 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, spherical - subspherical, white, 0.08-0.16 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.12 |
|
brown inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subangular, very sperical - very elongate, brown, 0.04-7.2 |
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