fabric type |
VEL-A-2
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ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Velia |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture middle fine, numerous fine to large inclusions: white, grey, red, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.2), channel (0.08-0.4); void length: 0.04-1.2 |
inclusions |
12.5%, length: <0.04-1.4 |
sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, elongate, white, grey, clear, 0.06-0.8 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
singular, subrounded, subspherical, white, 0.6 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, elongate, white, greyish white, 0.16-0.6 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, red, reddish brown, <0.04-1.4 |
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.12 |