| fabric type |
SOL-A-3
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light reddish brown, core light grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, reddish, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
reddish yellow 5 YR 6/6, core grey 5 YR 5/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.2 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-2.0 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, white, clear, <0.04-0.6 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.5 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, black, <0.04-2.0 |
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