| fabric type |
MOT-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour brown, core greyish brown, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: yellowish white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
weak red 5 R 4/2, core dark reddish grey 5 R 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
12.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.8 |
| inclusions |
17.4%, length: <0.04-2.4 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
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|
quartz |
frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, white, clear, 0.04-1.0 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-1.1 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-2.4 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, orange, 0.06-0.2 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded, subspherical, black, 1.2 |
representative sample for MOT-A-1 
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