| fabric type |
MOT-A-2
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| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour brownish grey, peripheral area light red, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
reddish brown 2.5 YR 5/3, light red 10 R 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.06 (channel), 0.04 (vughy)->4.4 (channel), 1.0 (vughy) |
| inclusions |
20%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, white reddish, 0.08-0.52 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, 0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.06-0.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, reddish brown, red, 0.06-0.28 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, rounded - subrounded, spherical, black, 0.1-0.16 |
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