| fabric type |
LIL-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, peripheral area grey, texture coarse, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
reddish grey 10 R 5/1, core light red 10 R 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.72 (vughy), 0.6 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
| 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, grey, clear, white, reddish brown, 0.04-0.7 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.8 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, 0.12-0.16 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, subspherical, elongate, black, 0.08 |
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