| fabric type |
SEL-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Selinunte / Selinus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, pale brown, texture middle fine, numerous small and few large inclsions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6, pale brown 2.5 Y 8/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-0.5 |
| inclusions |
30%, length: <0.04-1.0 |
| sorting |
well sorted sand in different compositions |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, brownish, <0.04-0.52 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.8 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish-white, white, <0.04-0.5 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-1.0 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded, very spherical - ssubspherical, black, <0.04-0.12 |
|
grey inclusions |
singular, subelongate, grey, 1.0 |
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