| fabric type |
PAE-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture middle fine and compact, some fine to large inclusions: white, gray, black, red |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.48, singular 1.28 |
| inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-1.1 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, rounded, angular - very angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, 0.1-0.68 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical - elongate, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-1.1 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, grey, 0,04-0.52 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - spherical, subelongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.8 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.8 |
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