| fabric type |
MALTA-A-2
|
| fabric previously published as |
Impasto 64 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour exterior and interior pale brown, core grey, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to some large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
exterior and interior light red 2.5 YR 6/6, core grey 7.5 YR 5/0 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.6), channel (0.08-2.0); void length: 0.04-2.0 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-2.0 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
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|
mica |
very frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.08-0.64 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, <0.94-0.64 |
|
black inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - spherical, black, <0.04-0.44 |
|
grey inclusions |
infrequent, angular - very angular, subspherical, subelongate, grey, 0.32-2.0 |
|
foraminifera |
very frequent, well rounded, subrounded, very spherical, spherical, very elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.12-0.52 |
|
more inclusions2 |
very frequent, rounded, subangular - very angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, white, grey, yellowish, clear, 0.08-0.8 |
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