fabric type |
CAL-A-1
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ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: grey, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
reddish yellow 5 YR 7/6, core pink 5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
20%; void form: vughy (0.12-2.6), channel (0.08-2.12); void length: 0.08-2.6 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
riddled with, well rounded, subangular - very angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate - elongate, grey, clear, 0.04-1.0 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.16 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.08-0.24 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, very elongate, white, 0.04-0.8 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, very elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.16 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate-elongate, black, <0.04-0.16 |
foraminifera |
singular, rounded, very spherical - spherical, white, 0.12-0.24 |