SOL-A-3, M 179/3, scale bar 0.5mm
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| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | SOL-A-3 |
|---|---|
| ware | Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production | Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour light red, texture middle fine, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light red 2.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.7 (vughy), 0.5 (channel) |
| inclusions | 10%, length: <0.04-0.7, 1x3.4 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, <0.04-0.16 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.7 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, rounded - subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-3.4 |
| black inclusions | frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
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