| fabric type |
PAN-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale red, texture fine and compact, numerous small to few large inclusions: white, yellowish, grey, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
reddish yellow 5 YR 7/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.5 (vughy), 0.3 (channel) |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, clear, grey, <0.04-0.24 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish white, <0.04-1.2 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.9 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.1 |
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