fabric type |
PAN-A-2
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: grey, white, red, voids, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.7 (vughy), 1.0 (channel) |
inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, <0.04-0.2 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.16 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, very spherical, - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, grey, 0.04-0.6 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, grey, black, 0.04-0.5 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.5 |
black inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.24 |