| 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
|
|
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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