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IG-G-3

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
fabric type IG-G-3
ware Glazed Wares
supposed site of production Paestum
certainty of arguments archaeometric: not certain
visual excamination of fresh break grayish brown fine, some mica
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) 10YR5/3
texture of freshly broken surface fine
hardness hard
porosity 2%; void form: channel; void length: 00,32
inclusions 1%
sorting well sorted silt
 

Inclusions

quartz infrequent
mica very frequent, angular, spherical, white: dark, 0,03
reddish inclusions infrequent, rounded, spherical, reddish brown, 0,03-0,15
black inclusions infrequent, subrounded, spherical, black, 0,03-0,08
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