| 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
|
|
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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