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CAL-A-1, M 149/43, 16x


CAL-A-1, M 149/43, 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 | 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 |
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 |
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