

CAL-A-6, M 119/171, 25x


CAL-A-6, M 119/171, 16x


CAL-A-6, M 119/171, 8x
fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
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, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | pink - reddish yellow 5 YR 7/4-7/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 3.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.2), channel (0.16-1.12); void length: 0.04-1.2 |
inclusions | 7.5%, length: <0.04-1.12 |
sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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quartz | frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, reddish, 0.06-1.12 |
mica | infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, 0.04-0.06 |
reddish inclusions | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.68 |
black inclusions | infrequent, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.44 |
foraminifera | frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, yellowish, 0.08-0.32 |
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