
AKR-A-1, M 208/43, scale bar 0.2mm

AKR-A-1, M 208/43, scale bar 0.5mm


AKR-A-1, M 208/43, 25x


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AKR-A-1, M 208/43, 8x
fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
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 |
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 |
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