AKR-A-1, M 119/177, scale bar 0.2mm
AKR-A-1, M 119/177, scale bar 0.5mm
AKR-A-1, M 119/177, 25x
AKR-A-1, M 119/177, 16x
AKR-A-1, M 119/177, 8x
| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| 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 |
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 |
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