| fabric type |
PAE-CBM-1
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: not certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
yellowish red, hackly; many small to very large white inclusions, many middle-sized to very large gray particles |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
hackly |
| hardness |
very hard |
| porosity |
10%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0,2-2 |
| inclusions |
30%, length: 0,02-5,2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, white; clear, 0.12-3,2 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0,08-0,4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,04-0,08 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, rust coloured, 0,2-2,4 |
|
grey inclusions |
very frequent, subrounded, spherical - subspherical, dark grey, 0,12-5,2 |
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