| fabric type |
MOT-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, core dark grey, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: grey, white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, core dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: channel, voids; void length: 0.04-1.1 (channel), 2.6 (vughy) |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-1.3 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, 0.06-0.8 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.12 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.72 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-1.3 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, reddish brown, 0.04-0.52 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.4 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, orange |
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