| fabric type |
SOL-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour light red and pale brown, core brown, texture middle fine, numerous small to large inclusions: white, grey, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 10 R 5/8, weak red 10 R 5/3 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
7.5%; void form: vhugy, channel; void length: 0.04-1.2, 1x vughy >2.4 |
| inclusions |
17.5%, length: <0.04-1.8 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, subangular - angular, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, grey, white, reddish, clear, 0.06-1.3 |
|
mica |
infrequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellowish white, white, <0.04-0.3 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellowish white, white, 0.04-1.8 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-1.0 |
representative sample for SOL-A-1 
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