fabric type |
SOL-A-2
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour reddish brown, texture middle fine, numerous small to large inclusions: pale red, red, yellowish, grey, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light reddish brown 5 YR 5/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
10%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.2 (channel) |
inclusions |
17.5%, length: <0.04-2.5 |
sorting |
unsorted |
|
Inclusions
|
quartz |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.06-1.0 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, yellow, yellowish white, reddish, <0.04-2.0 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellow, yellowish white, reddish, 0.04-2.5 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.5 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.2 |
foraminifera |
singular, rounded, spherical, white, 0.24 |