| fabric type |
MOT-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, core dark grey, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, core weak red 10 R 5/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-2.0 (vughy), 0,8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
17.5%, length: <0.04-0.88 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, white, 0.06-0.76 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.88 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.08-0.6 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded, very spherical, black, 0.24 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, subspherical, elongate, orange, 0.04-0.4 |
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