| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | LIL-C-1 |
|---|---|
| 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 dark grey, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: yellowish white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | dark reddish grey 10 R 3/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.6 |
| inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-0.6, singularly 2.0 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, clear, grey, 0.04-0.5 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - spherical, elongate, yellowish white, <0.04-0.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, 0.04-0.6 |
| reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, red, <0.04-0.16 |
| more inclusions2 | singular, subspherical, red, 2.0 |
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