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 |