PAN-SOL-A-1, M 119/178, scale bar 0.2mm
PAN-SOL-A-1, M 119/178, scale bar 0.5mm
PAN-SOL-A-1, M 119/178, 25x
PAN-SOL-A-1, M 119/178, 16x
PAN-SOL-A-1, M 119/178, 8x
| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | PAN-SOL-A-1 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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