| fabric type |
MOT-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour dark grey, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: yellowish white, white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.2 (vughy), 0.9 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-1.1 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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|
quartz |
frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, white, 0.08-0.9 |
|
mica |
singular, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.7 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, reddish, 0.04-1.1 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical, reddish brown, orange, 0.04-0.4 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical, elongate, black, 0.06-0.08 |
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