fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | PAE-REG-C-3 |
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ware |
Coarse Wares ceramica comune grezza |
supposed site of production | Paestum region |
visual excamination of fresh break | brown, edges strong brown; granular fracture; numerous fine white particles, some dark inclusions, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | 7.5YR 5/3, edges 7.5YR 5/6 |
texture of freshly broken surface | granular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 5%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0.05-0.5 |
inclusions | 20%, length: 0.025-0.75 |
sorting | moderately sorted sand |
Inclusions |
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quartz | frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, clear; white, 0.25-0.75 |
mica | infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0.025-0.04 |
calciumcarbonate | frequent, rounded, spherical, white; dark rims, 0.2-0.25 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses | infrequent, well rounded, spherical, white; gray, 0.2 |
reddish inclusions | infrequent, rounded, spherical, rust coloured, 0.25 |
black inclusions | infrequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, black, 0.12 |
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