| fabric type |
SOL-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture coarse and compact, small and large inclusions: white, yellowish, grey, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.2 (vughy), 0.7 (channel) |
| inclusions |
17.5%, length: <0.04-1.7 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, brownish, 0.06-1.0 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.5 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-1.7 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded, subelongate - elongate, reddish brown, red, 0.04-0.1 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, black, 0.04-0.24 |
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