| fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
| fabric type | LIL-C-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Ware |
| supposed site of production | Lilibeo / Lilybaion |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour greyish brown, core red, texture middle fine, numerous small and few large inclusions: yellowish white, white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1, core red 10 R 5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.6 (vughy), 0.4 (channel) |
| inclusions | 22.5%, length: <0.04-0.5 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subangular, clear, grey, 0.04-0.5 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, rounded, very spherical - spherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.4 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.45 |
| reddish inclusions | singular, rounded, spherical, reddish brown, 0.04-0.2 |
| black inclusions | singular, rounded, very spherical, black, 0.04-0.08 |
| more inclusions2 | singular, subrounded, subelongate, light red, 0.12-0.45 |
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