FACEM - provenience studies on pottery in the central mediterranean

AKR-A-1

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometrypetrography
fabric type AKR-A-1
ware Transport Amphorae
supposed site of production Agrigento
certainty of arguments archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain
visual excamination of fresh break Clay of pale yellow colour (with pinkish core), very fine and depurated with no visible inclusions
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) 2.5 Y 7/3; 5 YR 7/4 (core)
texture of freshly broken surface fine
hardness hard
porosity void form: channel; vughy; chamber (rare); void length: 0.08-12-1.00
inclusions length: 0.04-08-0.79
sorting well sorted silt
 

Inclusions

quartz singular, subangular, subspherical, greyish-transparent, 0.24
mica infrequent, shiny
calciumcarbonate infrequent, subrounded; angular; subrounded, very elongate; spherical; subspherical, white, 0.16-0.79
carbonate pseudomorphoses very frequent, rounded; well rounded, very spherical, white-yellowish, 0.04-0.40 (rare)
red iron oxide concretions singular, rounded, spherical; subelongate, reddish brown, 0.04-08-0.40
reddish inclusions singular, rounded; well rounded, very spherical, red/orangish, 0.04-0.16
black inclusions singular, subrounded, subelongate, black, 0.12
Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/m-208-5