| 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 red, texture middle fine, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.0 (vughy), 0.6 (channel) |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-1.6 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.9 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, white, <0.04-0.64 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.08-0.32 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-1.6 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.36 |
|
foraminifera |
infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, subspherical, elongate, very elongate, white, 0.4-0.8 |
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