fabric type |
W-CENT-SARD-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
Impasto 43 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour exterior reddish grey, interior and core light red, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, red, black, voids, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
exterior reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/3, interior and core light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
7.5%; void form: channel (0.08-1.4), vughy (0.06-1.6); void length: 0.06-1.6 |
inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-1.05 |
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, white, grey, reddish, clear, 0.04-1,05 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish, reddish, 0.06-0.56 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, reddish, 0.2-2.5 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, <0.04-0.84 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |