fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
PN impasto 5 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine inclusions: red, white, dark, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
1.0%; void form: channel; void length: 0.12 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.1 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, rounded-subangular, spherical-subspherical, grey, reddish, clear, 0.04-1.1 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, 0.04-0.16 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, 0.04-1.0 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, subangular, spherical, black, <0.04-0.16 |
foraminifera |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, white, 0.4 |
more inclusions3 |
frequent, angular - very angular, subspherical, elongate, golden brown, 0.08-0.32 |