fabric type |
CAL-A-1
|
fabric previously published as |
F. 5 |
ware |
Transport Amphorae |
supposed site of production |
Calabria |
certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break |
colour pale brown, texture fine and compact, numerous fine to infrequent large inclusions: mica, red, grey, voids |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pink 7.5 YR 7/4 |
texture of freshly broken surface |
regular |
hardness |
hard |
porosity |
3%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.12-1.2 |
inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-0.64 |
sorting |
unsorted |
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Inclusions
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, subsphericalelongate - subelongate, grey, white, clear, 0.04-0.64 |
mica |
riddled with, spherical, angular, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.12 |
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, 0.04-0.48 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0.06-0.28 |
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.28 |
black inclusions |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very angular, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.32 |
brown inclusions |
very frequent, very angular, subspherical, elongate - subelongate, brown-red, golden brown, 0.04-0,4 |
foraminifera |
singular, rounded, very spherical - subsspherical, white, 0.08-0.2 |