| fabric type |
MOT-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour dark grey, peripheral area exterior red, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: white, yellowish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1, exterior 10 R 4/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.04-0.72 (channel), 1.1 (vughy) |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, 0.08-0.72 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.72 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherrical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-1.0 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, red, orange, 0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, subrounded, subspherical, black, 0.12-0.18 |
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