FACEM - provenience studies on pottery in the central mediterranean

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fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
fabric type [no fabric code]
ware Coarse Wares
ceramica comune depurata
supposed site of production Paestum
visual excamination of fresh break red, granular break, numerous fine white and dark inclusions, some large brown particles
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) 10 R 5/8
texture of freshly broken surface granular
hardness hard
porosity 20%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.05-0.75
inclusions 20%, length: 0.025-1
sorting unsorted
 

Inclusions

quartz very frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, clear; white, 0.075-0.75
mica frequent, angular, spherical; very elongate, white; dark, 0.025-0.12
calciumcarbonate infrequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0.25-0.3
reddish inclusions infrequent, well rounded, subspherical, reddish brown, 0.1-1
black inclusions frequent, well rounded, spherical, black, 0.1-0.5
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