| fabric type |
MALTA-A-3
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and grey, texture middle fine, numerous fine to some large inclusions, yellowish, reddish, white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6, core grey 7.5 YR 5/0 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-1.6 |
| inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
| sorting |
poorly sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, yellowish orange, white, 0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, yellowish orange, 0.08-1.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.24 |
|
black inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical, black, 0.04-0.52 |
|
foraminifera |
infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, very elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.28-0.48 |
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