fabric type |
W-SARD-A-2
|
fabric previously published as |
Impasto 30 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Western Sardinia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to some large inclusions: red, grey, white, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 8/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
1.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.8-0.24 |
inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-1.52 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, grey, white, reddish, 0.06-1.52 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, spherical, subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.08-0.28 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, very spherical, subspherical, subelongate, reddish, pale orange, 0.04-0.12 |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical, subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.12 |
black inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
foraminifera |
singular, subrounded, very spherical, subspherical, white, 0.2-0.28 |