fabric type |
SOL-A-4
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, core grey, texture coarse and compact, numerous small and large inclusions: white, black, reddish, mica, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8, core gley 1 5/- |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-1.6, 1x 2.4 (vughy), 0.28 (channel) |
inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-1.4, 1x 2.4 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, reddish, <0.04-0.2 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-ß.ß8 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white and reddish, yellowish white, <0.04-0.08 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, white and reddish, yellowish white, <0.04-2.4 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.24 |
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, black, <0.04-0.8 |
more inclusions2 |
infrequent, subrounded - subangular, spherical - subspherical, brown, red and grey, 0.2-1.6 |