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 red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.3, 1x 0.8 (channel) |
inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-0.4 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.24 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.12 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.4 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, <0.04-0.06 |
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, very spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.08 |