| fabric type |
PAE-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, red, black, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
reddish yellow 5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.24), channel (0.08-0.4); void length: 0.04-0.24 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-0.72 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, 0.06-0.6 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, white, 0.08-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, grey, 0.08-0.83 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.72 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
|
more inclusions1 |
singular, rounded, subspherical, white, 1.8 |
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