| fabric type |
PAE-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture middle fine and compact, fine inclusions: white, red, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-0.16), channel (0.04-0.8); void length: 0,04-0,8 |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0,04-0,6 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
riddled with, well rounded-very angular, very spherical-subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, white, reddish, 0.04-0.6 |
|
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded-angular, very spherical-subspherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.16 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, grey, 0.12-0.24 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded-subrounded, very spherical-subspherical, red, reddish brown, reddis brown and black, <0.04-0.48 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded-angular, subspherical, elongate-very elongate, black, black-brown, 0,.4-0.16 |
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