fabric type |
MOT-A-1
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ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, core brown, coarse texture, numerous small to large inclusions: white, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8, core reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
12.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.0 (vughy), 1.1 (channel) |
inclusions |
17.5%, length: <0.04-1.6 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, white, 0.08-1.0 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.32 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-1.6 |
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, reddish brown, 0.04 |
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.16 |