| fabric type |
PAE-A-3
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour exterior light brown, interior red, texture coarse and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, black, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
exterior light reddish brown 2.5 YR 6/4, light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy (0.08-0.6), channel (0.08-1.2); void length: 0.08-1.2 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clea, 0.06-0.8 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
singular, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.7 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, rounded, subspherical, white, 0.4-1.2 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, angular, spherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.4 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, subrounded, angular, subspherical, black, 0.04-0.08 |
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