fabric type |
SOL-A-4
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, yellowish, red, grey, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 10 R 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.08, 1x 2.0 (vughy), 0.24 (channel) |
inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-0.08 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.36 |
mica |
very frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.32 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.72 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.8 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.32 |