| fabric type |
SEL-A-2
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Selinunte / Selinus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour greenish white, core pale red, fine texture, numerous small and few large inclusions: grey, red, white, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
pale yellow 5 Y 7/3, core light reddish-brown 2.5 YR 7/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-1.4, 1x 2.2 (vughy), 1.7 (channel) |
| inclusions |
30%, length: <0.04-0.7 |
| sorting |
well sorted sand in different compositions |
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Inclusions
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|
quartz |
riddled with, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, <0.04-0.56 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, white, <0.04-0.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, rounded, very spherical, white - orange, 0.36 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, red, reddish brown, orange, <0.04-0.68 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, 0.04-0.24 |
|
more inclusions2 |
singular, subspherical, pale red, greenish white, 0.5-0.7 |
representative sample for SEL-A-2 
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