| fabric type |
LIL-A-2
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour grey, core red, texture coarse, numerous small and few large inclusions: yellowish white, white, black, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1,core weak red 10 R 5/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.06 (vughy, channel)-1.6 (vughy), 0.2 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-0.5, 1x 1.7 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, 0.06-0.32 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish - white, white, 0.04-0.5 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown - black, 0.06-1.7 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.2 |
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