| fabric type |
MOT-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour dark reddish brown, texture coarse, numerous small to large inclusions: white, yellowish white, reddish, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
dusky red 10 R 3/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: channel, vughy; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.6 (vughy), 1.2 (channel) |
| inclusions |
25%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
| sorting |
bimodal: poorly-sorted sand in well-sorted silt |
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Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
frequent, rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, white, 0.08-0.9 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.08 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-1.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, 0.04-0.4 |
|
black inclusions |
singular, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.2 |
representative sample for MOT-A-2 
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