fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | PAE-C-1 |
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ware |
Coarse Wares Ceramica comune grezza |
supposed site of production | Paestum |
certainty of arguments | archaeometric: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break | granular, many fine white, some dark inclusions |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | 2.5YR 5/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 5%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.08-0.7 |
inclusions | 20%, length: 0.025-0.5 |
sorting | bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
Inclusions |
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quartz | very frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, clear; white, 0.2-0.55 |
mica | frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.025 |
calciumcarbonate | infrequent, well rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, 0.1-0.2 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses | frequent, well rounded, subspherical, white, 0.2-0.5 |
black iron oxide concretions | frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, black, 0.05-0.25 |
white inclusions | infrequent, subrounded, subspherical, white, 0.45-0.5 |
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