| fabric type |
MALTA-A-5
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Malta |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour greenish white, texture coarse, infrequent fine to large inclusions: white, red, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light grey 5 YR 7/2 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
soft |
| porosity |
12.5%; void form: vughy (0.04-1.6), channel (0.06-0.4); void length: 0.04-1.6 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, white, 0.04-0.12 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, 0.12-0.5 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.06 |
|
white inclusions |
frequent, subangular - angular, subspherical - subelongate, white, greenish white, 0.08-1.8 |
|
foraminifera |
frequent, well rounded, subrounded, very spherical, subspherical, very elongate, white, 0.12-0.4 |
representative sample for MALTA-A-5 
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