| fabric type |
PAE-CBM-2
|
| ware |
Ceramic Building Materials |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
pink,granular; numerous fine white inclusions, scattered mid-sized red inclusions, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR7/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
2.5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,12-0,8 |
| inclusions |
15%, length: 0,02-0,8 |
| sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, angular, spherical, clear; white, 0.2-0,8 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, yellowish white, 0,08-0,4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, spherical, white, 0,04-0,12 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0,16-0,6 |
|
grey inclusions |
very frequent, subangular, spherical - subspherical, dark grey, 0,04-0,8 |
representative sample for PAE-CBM-2 
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