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HIM-A-1

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometrypetrography
fabric type HIM-A-1
ware Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production Himera
certainty of arguments archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break Brown colour clay with a good amount of visible inclusions of white-yellowish colour; carbonatic matrix
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) 7.5 YR 5/4
texture of freshly broken surface granular
hardness hard
porosity void form: Spongy; Channel; Vughy; void length: 0.16-0.60
inclusions length: 0.08-0.67
sorting bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt
 

Inclusions

quartz diffuse, subrounded; angular; subangular, spherical; subspherical, Greyish-trasparent-whitish, 0,12-0,40
mica frequent, angular, spherical, shiny, 0,03
calciumcarbonate frequent, well rounded; rounded, very spherical, yellowish-white, 0,04-0,48
carbonate pseudomorphoses frequent, angular; subangular, spherical; very spherical, yellowish, 0,08-16-0,20
more inclusions2 singular, angular, subspherical, orange-reddish, 0,08-0,20
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