fabric type |
AKR-A-1
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ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Agrigento |
certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
Pale yellow-greenish clay, fine and compact, with some visible inclusions of reddish-brown colour of small size, one big and brownish inclusion and sporadic small and blackish ones. Furthermore there some visible voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5 Y 7/3 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
void form: Channel; vughy; holes; void length: 0.02-0.04-0.63-1.27 (channel lenght) |
inclusions |
length: 0.02-04-0.20-40; 1,60 (singular) |
sorting |
well sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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quartz |
sporadic, subangular; rounded, subspherical, Greyish-transparent, 0,16-0,20-24 |
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, shiny, 0,02-03 |
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, white-yellowish, 0,08-0,40 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, subrounded; rounded; subrounded; subangular, very spherical; spherical; subspherical, yellowish, 0,02-04-0,32 |
red iron oxide concretions |
infrequent, subrounded; angular, subelongate; spherical, reddish-blackish, 0,24 |
reddish inclusions |
frequent, subangular; rounded, subspherical; spherical, reddish brown, 0,04-0,16 |
black inclusions |
rare, rounded, spherical, black-greyish, 0,16 |