fabric type |
CAL-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
Impasto 15 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour very pale brown, core light red, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to infrequent large inclusions: grey, white, red, mica, vacua |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pinkish white 7.5 YR 8/2, core reddish yellow 5 YR 7/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.06-1.6 |
inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, white, grey, reddish, 0.04-0.8 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.32 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, subspherical, white, 0.2 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-1.8 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.32 |