fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-2
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fabric previously published as |
Impasto 7 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine inclusions: grey, red, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
white 10 YR 8/2, core very pale brown 10 YR 7/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.6 |
inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-0.24 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
riddled with, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.24 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, light orange,light brown, 0.12 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspheical, light orange, light brown, 0.08-0.12 |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.12 |
black inclusions |
very frequent, spherical -subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-024 |