| fabric type |
LIL-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and greyish brown, sandwich, coarse texture, numerous small to large inclusions: white, yellowish white, voids. |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, weak red 2.5 YR 4/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.0 (vughy), 0.8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
27.5%, length: <0.04-0.7 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.68 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.7 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.64 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, subspherical, reddish brown, 0.6 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, black, 0.2 |
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