| fabric type |
LIL-A-2
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale brown, grey, core red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and sporadically large inclusions: grey, white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
gley 1, 5/1 and white 10 YR 8/1 (exterior), dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1, core red 10 R 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.06 (channel), 0.04 (vughy)-1.0 (channel), 0.8 (vughy) |
| inclusions |
22.5%, length: <0.04-0.44 |
| 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, clear, grey, 0.06-0.4 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white,white, <0.04-0.32 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical, yellowish white, white, dark gray brownish, 0.04-0.44 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.2 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.24 |
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