| fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-7
|
| fabric previously published as |
Impasto 81 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, core light brown, texture middle fine, numerous fine to large inclusions: grey, red, white, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/7, core light reddish brown 2.5 YR 6/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.4 |
| inclusions |
1.8%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, grey, reddish, white, clear, 0.04-0.96 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, white, yellowish, 0.04-1.2 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.48 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-1.8 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.6 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, subspherical, light greyish brown, 0.12-1.6 |
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