| fabric type |
PAN-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
irregular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.0 (vughy), 0.7 (channel) |
| inclusions |
4.5%, length: <0.04-0.9 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey. Clear, white, <0.04-0.4 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.12 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.7 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.9 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.46 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded, very sphericlal - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
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