fabric type |
SOL-A-4
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: yellowish, reddish, voids, white |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.9 |
inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-0.8, 1x 2.6 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, celar, <0.04-0.6 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.8 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-2.6 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.3 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.72 |