| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | LIL-C-2 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Ware |
| supposed site of production | Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red, core dark grey, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/8, core dark reddish grey |
| texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.6 (channel) |
| inclusions | 15%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, white, 0.04-0.24 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | infrequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.06-0.6 |
| reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded, subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.06-0.4 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.28 |
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