LIL-A-1, M 154/18, scale bar 0.5mm
LIL-A-1, M 154/18, 25x
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LIL-A-1, M 154/18, 8x
| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| 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 |
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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