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, grey, white, 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: vughy, channel; void length: 0.3-0.5 |
inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-1.3 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, rounded, subangular, spherical, elongate, subelongate, grey, reddish, clear, white, 0.04-1.2 |
mica |
very frequent, spherical, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.24 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subsphericla, elongate -very elongate, white, 0.04-0.6 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subangular, spherical - subspherical, very elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.6 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded, angular, spherical, very elongate, black, 0.04-0.4 |
foraminifera |
infrequent, well rounded, subangular, very spherical, subspherical, elongate, white, 0.12-0.4 |
more inclusions2 |
frequent, angular - very angular, subspherical , elongate, golden brown, 0.06-0.32 |