| fabric type |
SEL-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Selinunte / Selinus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small, sporadic large inclusions: white, grey, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.28, 1x 0.8 (vughy), 0.4 (channel) |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-0.9 |
| sorting |
well sorted sand in different compositions |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, <0.04-0.72 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.7 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.9 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.16 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subspherical, black, 0.04-0.28 |
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