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CAL-A-1, M 149/42, 16x


CAL-A-1, M 149/42, 8x
fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | CAL-A-1 |
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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, grey, white, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 5.0%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.12-0.24 |
inclusions | 20%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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quartz | very frequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, reddish, white, 0.04-0.8 |
mica | frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate | frequent, rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, white, 0.04-0.6 |
reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate-very elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.12-0.6 |
black inclusions | infrequent, rounded, angular, spherical, very elongate, black, 0.04-0.28 |
foraminifera | infrequent, well rounded, spherical, white, 0.2-0.28 |
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