FACEM - provenience studies on pottery in the central mediterranean

SOL-A-2

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometrypetrography
fabric type SOL-A-2
ware Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production Solunto / Solus
certainty of arguments archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break colour reddish brown and ligth red, texture fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, yellowish, voids, mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) light red 2.5 YR 6/6, core weak red 2.5 YR 5/2
texture of freshly broken surface granular
hardness hard
porosity 5.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.0 (vughy), 0.6 (channel)
inclusions 12.5%, length: <0.04-0.7
sorting unsorted
 

Inclusions

quartz infrequent, well rounded - subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, 0.04-0.1
mica frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08
calciumcarbonate very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.3
carbonate pseudomorphoses riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.7
reddish inclusions infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, 0.04-0.2
black inclusions infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.12
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