fabric description | object data | archaeometry |
fabric type | PAN-C-3 |
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ware |
Coarse Wares Plain Wares |
supposed site of production | Palermo / Panormos |
certainty of arguments | archaeological: quite certain |
visual excamination of fresh break | colour light red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: white, red, voids, mica |
colour of freshly broken section (munsell) | light red 10 R 6/8 |
texture of freshly broken surface | irregular |
hardness | hard |
porosity | 7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-2.0, 1x 3.2 (vughy), 0.08 (channel) |
inclusions | 17.5%, length: <0.04-2.0 |
sorting | unsorted |
Inclusions |
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quartz | frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, white, reddish, clear, 0.04-0.48 |
mica | frequent, spherical, elongate, white, dark, <0.04-0.08 |
calciumcarbonate | very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-1.0 |
carbonate pseudomorphoses | very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-0.4 |
reddish inclusions | frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.24 |
black inclusions | infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.12 |
foraminifera | infrequent, very spherical, very elongate, white, 0.2-0.6 |
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