| fabric type |
MALTA-A-1
|
| fabric previously published as |
Impasto 57 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, red, yellowish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
very hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-2.4 |
| inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
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|
quartz |
singular, well rounded, spherical, yellowish red, clear, 0,04-0,88 |
|
mica |
riddled with, spherical, elongate, white, <0,04-0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subspherical, elongate, very elongate, white, 0,04-0,32 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0,04-0,88 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, red, <0,04-0,12 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, very elongate, black, 0,16-0,44 |
|
foraminifera |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical, elongate, very elongate, white, 0,08-0,24 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, angular, subspherical, yellowish brown, reddish, 0,04-2,0 |
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