SOL-A-3, M 179/51, scale bar 0.5mm
SOL-A-3, M 179/51, 25x
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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 dark grey and red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: yellowish white, white, reddish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 2.5 YR 5/8, reddish grey 2.5 YR 5/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 5%; void form: vughy, cannel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.6 (vughy), 0.12 (channel) |
| inclusions | 10%, length: <0.04-1.6 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, <0.04-0.2 |
| mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.5 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, rounded - subrouded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.5 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.6 |
| reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.4 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, subrounded, spherical, elongate, subelongate, black, <0.04-0.3 |
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