| fabric type |
SOL-A-3
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8, dark grey 2.5 YR 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.08 (vughy), 0.4 (channel)-0.8 (vughy),1.8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-0.32 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, clear, grey, reddish, 0.04-0.2 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.12 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.32 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.32 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0.04-0.2 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, elongate, spherical, black, 0.04-0.08 |
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