fabric type |
SOL-A-1
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture middle fine, numerous small to large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 10 R 6/8, core light brown 7.5 YR 6/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.05 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.0 (vughy), 1.2 (channel) |
inclusions |
17.5%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, white, reddish, 0.06-0.5 |
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, <0.04-0.48 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, light grey, 0.08-1.0 |
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.08-0.16 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.36 |