fabric type |
SOL-A-3
|
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture fine and compact, numerous very small and infrequent small to large inclusions: white, yellowish white, red, mica voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.4 (vughy), 3.8 (channel) |
inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, spherical - subspherical, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.12 |
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.16 |
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-1.2 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.8 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, 0.04-1.1 |
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.3 |
foraminifera |
singular, well rounded, subspherical, yellowish white, 0.6 |