PAN-A-1, M 166/10, scale bar 0.5mm
PAN-A-1, M 166/10, 25x
PAN-A-1, M 166/10, 16x
PAN-A-1, M 166/10, 8x
| 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 inclusions: white, grey, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 2.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.6 (vughy), 0.36 (channel) |
| inclusions | 5%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, 0.04-0.2 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.08 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.2 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.5 |
| reddish inclusions | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.8 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, subrounded, very spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.08 |
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