| fabric type |
MALTA-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, dark grey, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions, white, yellowish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, core dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy (0.08-4.2), channel (0.12-1.2); void length: 0.08-4.2 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
singular, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, grey, 0.24-1.1 |
|
mica |
riddled with, angular, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish, 0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish, grey, 0.04-0.84 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subrounded, subspherical, reddish brown, 0.04-0.8 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.44 |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, well rounded, very spherical, spherical, subspherical,, white, yellowish, 0.2-0.32 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, subrounded, angular - very angular, subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, yellowish brown, reddish, 0.8-1.2 |
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