| fabric type |
SEL-A-2
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Selinunte / Selinus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale brown, core red, texture middle fine, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
very pale brown 10 YR 7/4, core light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-1.0 (vughy), 2.4, 1x 3.4 (channel) |
| inclusions |
30%, length: <0.04-1.4 |
| sorting |
well sorted sand in different compositions |
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Inclusions
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|
quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, brownish, <0.04-0.7 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.0 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.24 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.2 |
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