| fabric type |
LIL-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, coarse texture, numerous small to large iclusions: yellowish white, red, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, peripheral area dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.4 (vughy), 0.4 (channel) |
| inclusions |
30%, 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, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, white, 0.04-0.32 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - spherical, elongate - very elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-1.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - spherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.12-0.6 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, subspherical, black, black and red, 0.08-0.44 |
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