fabric type |
PAN-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: grey, red, voids, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.0 (vughy), 1.2 (channel) |
inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, white, 0.04-1.0 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, grey, <0.04-0.3 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, grey, <0.04-0.5 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-1.2 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, black, 0.04-0.16 |