| fabric type |
PAN-SOL-A-1
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| fabric previously published as |
SOL - A - 3 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo/Panormos-Solunto/Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour dark grey and reddish brown, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, dark grey, reddish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light brown 7.5 YR 6/4, grey 7.5 YR 5/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.2 (channel) |
| inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.7 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, <0.04-0.1 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.2 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.3 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.7 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.16 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, subrounded, very spherical, white, 0.2 |
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