| fabric type |
LIL-A-2
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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 brown, grey, red (sandwich), texture coarse, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light reddish brown 2.5 YR 6/4, redddish grey 10 R 5/1, core red 10 R 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.7 (vughy), 0.48 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
| 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, 0.04-0.56 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.2 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded, subspherical, red, reddish brown, 0.28-0.6 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, angular, elongate, black, 0.24 |
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