| fabric type |
SOL-A-4
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Solunto / Solus |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
colour red and dark grey, texture fine and compact, numerous small to large inclusions: yellow, white, red, voids |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
light red 2.5 YR 6/6,core dark reddish grey 2.5 YR 4/1 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
smooth |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0.04-1.0, 2x 3.0 |
| inclusions |
10%, length: <0.04-0.5 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, subangular, subspherical, elongate, grey, reddish, clear, <0.04-0.12 |
|
mica |
frequent, spherical, angular, elongate, white, <0.04-0.04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, yellow, white, <0.04-0.4 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, subelongate, yellow, white, <0.04-0.5 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, reddish brown, <0.04-0.12 |
|
black inclusions |
infrequent, rounded - subrounded, very spherical - subspherical, elongate, black, <0.04-0.18 |
representative sample for SOL-A-4 
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