fabric type |
CAL-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
F. 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 fine and compact, numerous fine to infrequent large inclusions: grey, white, red, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink - very pale brown 7.5 YR 7/4 - 10 YR 7/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.2 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate - elongate, white, grey, clear, reddish, 0.06-0.88 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, sark, <0.04-0.24 |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, well rounded - subangular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, redddish brown, <0.04-0.75 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate , very elongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |
more inclusions2 |
singular, subelongate, red, 1.2 |