| fabric description | object data | archaeometry | petrography |
| fabric type | MOT-C-1 |
|---|---|
| ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Ware |
| supposed site of production | Mozia / Motya |
| certainty of arguments | archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break | colour red and weak red, texture fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, grey |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light red 10 R 6/8, weak red 10 R 5/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface | smooth |
| hardness | hard |
| porosity | 2.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.5 (vughy), 0.4 (channel) |
| inclusions | 17.5%, length: <0.04-1.04 |
| sorting | moderately sorted sand |
Inclusions |
|
| quartz | infrequent, subangular - angular, subspherical, clear, white, 0.06-0.28 |
| mica | singular, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
| calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.5 |
| carbonate pseudomorphoses | riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-1.04 |
| reddish inclusions | singular, rounded, spherical, elongate, reddish brown, 0.08-0.16 |
| black inclusions | singular, rounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.05-0.08 |
| more inclusions2 | infrequent, subrounded, subangulat, spherical, elongate, very elongate, orange, 0.08-0.4 |
representative sample for MOT-C-1 Cite this page as: FACEM - http://facem.at/mot-c-1
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