PAN-A-1, M 154/26, scale bar 0.5mm
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| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| 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, core dark grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light red 2.5 YR 6/8, core grey gley 1 5/- |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 3.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.5 (vughy), 0.7 (channel) |
| inclusions | 5%, length: <0.04-0.9 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, 0.04-0.6 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, greyish, <0.04-0.9 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, greyish, <0.04-0.4 |
| reddish inclusions | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, <0.04-0.28 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |
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