| fabric type |
MOT-A-1
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, core dark grey, texture coarse, numerous small to lage inclusions: white, yellowish white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, core dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04-0.8 (vughy), 1.0 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-2.1 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, reddish, clear, white, 0.04-2.1 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.9 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.12-0.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, red, 0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded, subspherical, black, 0.12-0.4 |
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