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 |
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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 |