| fabric type |
MALTA-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red, core dark grey, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: yellowish, white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/8, core dark grey 5 YR 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.6), channel (0.08-1.0); void length: 0.04-1.6 |
| inclusions |
20%, length: 0.04-1.6 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
singular, rounded, spherical, yellowish, 0.4-1.0 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded - angular, spherical - subspherrical, white, yellowish, 0.08-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, very spherical - well rounded, subspherical, yellowish, white, white and reddish, 0.04-1.0 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, spherical-angular, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.32 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, sherical, subangular, black, 0.08-0.68 |
|
white inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - very angular, spherical - subspherical, white, 0.08-0.6 |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish, 0.16-0.4 |
|
more inclusions2 |
very frequent, very angular - subrounde, subspherical - subelongate, yellowish brown, yellowish white, reddish, 0.08-1.6 |
representative sample for MALTA-A-1 
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