| fabric type |
PAN-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, exterior area dark grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small inclusions: white, dark grey, reddish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8, dark reddish grey 2.5 YR 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.4 (vughy), 0.7 (channel) |
| inclusions |
7.5%, length: <0.04-0.7 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, 0.04-0.24 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.3 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, dark grey - black, 0.04-0.4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.2 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.2 |
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