SEL-A-3, M 154/89, scale bar 0.5mm
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| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | SEL-A-3 |
|---|---|
| ware | Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production | Selinunte / Selinus |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red, exterior pale brown, texture middle fine, numerous small and large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 2.5 YR 5/6, exterior pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.2 (vughy), 0.2 (channel) |
| inclusions | 15%, length: <0.04-3.0 |
| sorting | moderately sorted sand |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, white, pale brown, <0.04-0.8 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.06 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.32 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | infrequent, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.25-0.5 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.9 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, <0.04-0.28 |
| white inclusions | singular, very elongate, white, 2.8 |
| more inclusions2 | singular, very elongate, red, 3.0 |
| more inclusions3 | infrequent, rounded - subangular, very spherical, red, 0.06-0.9 |
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