| fabric type |
CAL-A-3
|
| fabric previously published as |
PN impasto 6 |
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Calabria |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to large inclusions: red, white, light brown, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light reddish yellow 5 YR 6/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.0 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1,8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, reddish, white, clear, 0.06-1.6 |
|
mica |
very frequent, subrounded, angular, spherical, subspherical, white, dark, <0.04-0.16 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, white, 0.16-0.24 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, well rounded, spherical, elongate, white, 0.28-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, subrounded - subangular, vey spherical - subspherical, elongate-very elongate, reddish brown, reddish brown-black, 0.04-0.8 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, angular, subspherical, elongate, black, 0.12-0.36 |
|
more inclusions2 |
infrequent, subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, light brown, 0.44-1.8 |
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