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fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | MOT-C-2 |
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ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Ware |
supposed site of production | Mozia / Motya |
certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break | colour red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | red 10 R 5/8, core red 10 R 5/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.0 (vughy), 0.7 (channel) |
inclusions | 17.5%, length: <0.04-0.9 |
sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, clear, grey, white, 0.06-0.9 |
mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.,04-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.64 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses | frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.64 |
reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.08 |
black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.16 |
foraminifera | singular, well rounded, very spherical, elongate, white, 0.24-0.3 |
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