fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
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 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 |
1.0%; void form: channel; void length: 0.04-0.16 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded - angular, spherical - subelongate, clear, white, grey, reddish, 0.04-1.2 |
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.16 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, white, 0.04-0.5 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical, subelongate - very elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-1.2 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12 |
foraminifera |
infrequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, elongate, white, 0.12-0.28 |
more inclusions2 |
infrequent, subangular - veryangular, subspherical, elongate, golden brown, 0.06-0.4 |