fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
Impasto 5 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine to infrequent large inclusions: white, grey, red, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.2-6.4 |
inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-1.4 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelonagte, grey, white, reddish, 0.06-1.4 |
mica |
riddled with, very spherical - subspherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.6 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.4 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |
brown inclusions |
very frequent, angular - very angular, subspherical, elongate, golden brown, 0.06-0.68 |
foraminifera |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, 0.16-0.4 |