fabric type |
AKR-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
SOL-A-3 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Agrigento |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.3 (vughy), 0.9 (channel) |
inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.5, 1x 4.8 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, reddish, 0.04-0.08 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.3 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, sunelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.5 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.3 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-1.8 |