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CAL-A-1, M 92/58, 16x


CAL-A-1, M 92/58, 8x
fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | CAL-A-1 |
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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 |
Inclusions |
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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 |
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