| fabric type |
PAN-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and dark grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red, yellowish white, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
6.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.5 (channel) |
| inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.9 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, 0.04-0.18 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.9 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate - very elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.6 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.1 |
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