| 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 dark greyish brown, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: yellowish white |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | dark reddish grey 10 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.4 |
| inclusions | 17.5%, length: <0.04-0.48, singularly 0.6 |
| sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, clear, 0.06-0.28 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.6 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.6 |
| reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, red, orange, 0.04-0.24 |
| black inclusions | singular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12 |
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