| fabric type |
MOT-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, core dark brown, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: white, yellowish white, grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, core weak red 10 R 4/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.2 (vughy), 0.8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-0.9 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, angular - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, white, 0.04-0.8 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.06 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.9 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.04-0.7 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, black, 0.04 |
|
more inclusions2 |
singular, spherical - subspherical, pale red |
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