fabric type |
W-CENT-SARD-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
Impasto 43 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
West Central Sardinia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
exterior light red, interior and core reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
exterior light red 2.5 YR 6/8, interior and core reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-3.8), channel (0.08-0.44); void length: 0.04-3.8 |
inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-1.32 |
sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, angular - very angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, white, clear, 0.06-1,32 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, white, 0.08-2.3 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, subrounded, subspherical, white, 0.36 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.68 |
black inclusions |
frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |