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AKR-A-1

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometrypetrography
fabric type AKR-A-1
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

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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