| fabric type |
LIL-A-1
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, core weak red, coarse texture, numerous small to large inclusions: white, grey, black, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
core reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/6, peripheral area light red 10 R 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.2 (vughy), 1.8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
27.5%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, white, reddish brown, 0.04-0.9 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-1.2 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.06-1.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, very spherical, red, reddish brown, 0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.12-0.44 |
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