| fabric type |
SOL-A-4
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour gray, core brownish grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, dark grey, reddish, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
very dark grey gley 1, 3/0, core reddish grey |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.6 |
| inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical, subelongate, clear, white, 0.08-0.8 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.56 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
singular, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, brown, 0.06-1.2 |
|
black inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.4 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, rounded, very spherical, white, 0.28 |
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