| 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
|
|
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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