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PAN-C-3

fabric descriptionobject dataarchaeometry
fabric type PAN-C-3
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

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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