fabric type |
CAL-A-1
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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 fine and compact, numerous fine inclusions: grey, white, red, mica, vacua |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/3-7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.0 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-0.96 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, rounded - angular, subspherical, subelongate, white, grey, clear, reddish, 0.04-0.8 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, rounded, angular, subspherical, white, 0.32-0.4 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, rounded, very spherical, white, reddish, 0.12-0.32 |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, rounded - subangular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.96 |
black inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |