| fabric type |
MALTA-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, yellowish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 10 R 6/8, core red 10 R 5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
15%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.2), channel (0.08-2.9); void length: <0.04-2.9 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: 0.04-1.8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
singular, rounded, spherical, elongate, white, grey, 0.2-0.24 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded, very spherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.48 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded, very spherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.48 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, 0.04-0.28 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subangular, subspherical, black, 0.12-0.32 |
|
foraminifera |
very frequent, well rounded, subrounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, yellowish, 0.28-0.4 |
|
more inclusions3 |
frequent, angular - very angular, subrounded, subspherical - subelongate, yellowish white; yellowish brown, reddish, 0.12-1.8 |
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