| fabric type |
SOL-A-3
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red, texture fine and compact, numerous small and few large inclusions: white, grey, mica, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
red 2.5 YR 5/8 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy, channel; void length: 0.04 (vughy), 0.06 (channel)-0.8 (vughy), 0.8 (channel) |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-0.6 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, grey, clear, reddish, <0.04-0.2 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, elongate, angular, white, dark, <0.04-0.06 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
very frequent, well rounded - rounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.24 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
very frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, white, yellowish white, <0.04-0.6 |
|
reddish inclusions |
very frequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, red, <0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, well rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.26 |
representative sample for SOL-A-3 
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