| fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
| fabric type | MALTA-HP-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Handmade Pottery Local Handmade |
| supposed site of production | Malta |
| certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour yellowish red, exterior brownish, texture coarse, numerous fine to large inclusions: yellowish, white, grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | exterior light brown 7.5 YR 6/3, interior and core reddish yellow 5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
| hardness | soft |
| porosity | 15%; void form: vughy (0.04-2.4), channel (0.06-2.0); void length: 0.04-2.4 |
| inclusions | 25%, length: <0.04-2.6 |
| sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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| quartz | infrequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, subspherical , elongate, white, grey, clear, 0,12-2.0 |
| mica | infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
| calciumcarbonate | riddled with, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, yellowish, white, <0.04-2.0 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | singular, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, 0,04-0,12 |
| reddish inclusions | very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04-0.4 |
| black inclusions | infrequent, rounded, spherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.12 |
| foraminifera | frequent, well rounded, rounded, very spherical, subspherical, white, 0.08-0.4 |
| more inclusions2 | very frequent, subangular - very angular, subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish brown, yellowish white, white, reddish, 0.08-2.6 |
| more inclusions3 | singular, subangular, subelongate, white+black, 2.0 |
representative sample for MALTA-HP-1 Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/malta-hp-1
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