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SOL-A-4

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
fabric type SOL-A-4
ware Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production Solunto / Solus
certainty of arguments archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break colour red and grey (sandwich), texture fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: yellowish, white, grey, mica, voids
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) light red 2.5 YR 6/6 and 2.5 YR 6/8, 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)-1.0 (vughy), 1.2 (channel)
inclusions 10%, length: <0.04-1.0
sorting unsorted
 

Inclusions

quartz frequent, rounded, spherical, grey, <0.04-0.12
mica frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.1
calciumcarbonate riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.0
carbonate pseudomorphoses riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.0
reddish inclusions frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.7
black inclusions frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.6
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