| fabric type |
PAN-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and grey (sandwich), texture fine and compact, numerous small inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8, dark reddish grey 2.5 YR 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.2 (vughy), 4.4 (channel) |
| inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, white, 0.04-0.06 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, grey, <0.04-1.1 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, very elongate, white, yellowish white, grey, 0.04-1.2 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.6 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, white, 0.28-0.4 |
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