fabric type |
CAL-A-6
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fabric previously published as |
Impasto 21 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light reddish brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to infrequent large inclusions: grey, white, red |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink - reddish yellow 5 YR 7/4-7/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.6 |
inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-1.04 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, reddish, 0.06-0.92 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, subspherical, yellowish, <0.04-0.56 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, well rounded - rounded, subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.24-0.8 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-1.04 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12 |
foraminifera |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical, subspherical, yellowish, 0.12-0.36 |