fabric type |
CAL-A-1
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fabric previously published as |
PN impasto 5 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Rhegion province |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine inclusions: red, white, grey, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 8/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy ( 0.04-0.24), channel (0.12-0.32); void length: 0.04-0.32 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-0.86 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, well rounded - subangular, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, grey, reddish, 0.04-0.72 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.24 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, spherical, white, 0.12 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, 0.04-0.2 |
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, elongate, black, 0.04-0.56 |
brown inclusions |
infrequent, subangular - angular, spherical - subspherical, golden brown, 0.06-0.4 |