fabric type |
ION-ADR-A-2
|
fabric previously published as |
Corfiote IV |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Ionic-Adriatic region |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour greenish white and pale yellow, texture fine and compact, fine to infrequent large inclusions: red, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
exterior pale yellow 2.5 YR 8/3, interior and core white 5 Y 8/2 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
1.0%; void form: vughy (0.4-1.4), channel (0.16-2.4); void length: 0.16-2.4 |
inclusions |
5.0%, length: <0.04-2.2 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate-subelongate, white, grey, clear, 0.04-1.2 |
mica |
infrequent, well rounded, angular, very spherical - elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, white, yellowish |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, subelongate, red, inside white, 0.8-2.2 |
reddish inclusions |
riddled with, well rounded, very spherical, subspherical, elongate-subelongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.2 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, subangular, very spherical, subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |