| fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-9
|
| 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 reddish brown, texture fine and compact, infrequent fine to large inclusions: white, red |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light reddish brown 2.5 YR 6/4 and pink 5 YR 7/3 (sandwich) |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.08-0.64 |
| inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-2.6 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.4 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.12 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, 0.04-0.12 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, subelongate, white, black, 0.4-1.0 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.48 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, sperical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |
|
brown inclusions |
singular, very elongate, dark brown - grey, 2.6 |
|
more inclusions1 |
singular, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, white, 0.12 |
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