fabric type |
W-CENT-SARD-A-3
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fabric previously published as |
F. 41 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
West Central Sardinia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: grey, white, black, red, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
yellowish red 5 YR 5/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-4.0), channel (0.08-0.4); void length: 0.04-4.0 |
inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-0.96 |
sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, grey, white, 0.04-0,96 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-0.52 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, subrounded, subspherical, white, 0.24 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.68 |
black inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.32 |