| fabric type |
SEL-A-3
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Selinunte / Selinus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture middle fine and compact, numerous small and large inclusions: white, grey, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
| 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 3.6 (vughy), 2.0, 1x 1.5 (channel) |
| inclusions |
15%, length: <0.04-3.0 |
| sorting |
moderately sorted sand |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, subangular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - subelongate, grey, clear, brownish, <0.04-1.0 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, white, <0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
riddled with, rounded, angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, <0.04-0.48 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
singular, very spherical - subsperical, yellowish white, <0.04-0.12 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate - very elongate, red, reddish brown, <0.04->12.0 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.2 |
|
foraminifera |
singular, rounded, very spherical, white, 0.28 |
representative sample for SEL-A-3 
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