PAN-A-1, M 165/22, scale bar 0.5mm
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| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | PAN-A-1 |
|---|---|
| ware | Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production | Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small, sporadically large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light red 10 R 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.48 (vughy), 0.5 (channel) |
| inclusions | 7.5%, length: <0.04-0.7 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, reddish brown, 0.04-0.44 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very sperical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.3 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.7 |
| reddish inclusions | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.5 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, grey, 0.04-0.16 |
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