| fabric type |
PAN-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Palermo / Panormos |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture fine and compact, small and few large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids, mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
3.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.0, 1x 3.8 (vughy), 1.7 (channel) |
| inclusions |
5%, length: <0.04-0.8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, grey, clear, <0.04-0.12 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.16 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, subelongate, white, yellowish white, 0.04-0.48 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, white, yellowish white, 0.12-0.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.4 |
|
black inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subsphercial, elongate, black, dark grey, <0.04-0.8 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, rounded, very spherical, white, 0.4 |
representative sample for PAN-A-2 
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