| fabric type |
LIL-A-2
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, peripheral areas pale brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and sporadically large inclusions: white, yellowish white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 7/6, peripheral areas pale brown 2.5 YR 8/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.7 |
| inclusions |
30%, length: <0.04-0.9, 1x 1.8 |
| 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, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, white, reddish brown, 0.04-0.9 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.0 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, <0.04-0.28 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, black, 0.06-0.2 |
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