| fabric type |
PAN-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.08 (channel)-1.2 (vughy), 2.2 (channel) |
| inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-1.2 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subangular, grey, 0.04-0.2 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, reddish brown, red, 0.04-1.2 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, black, 0.04-0.16 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, rounded, very spherical, white, 0.24 |
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