W-SARD-A-2

fabric description

object data

archaeometry

fabric type	W-SARD-A-2
ware	Transport Amphorae Punic Pottery
supposed site of production	West Central Sardinia
visual excamination of fresh break	very pale brown, granular; some fine to mid-sized reddish brown particles
colour of freshly broken section (munsell)	10YR8/4
texture of freshly broken surface	granular
hardness	hard
porosity	5%; void form: vughy; void length: 0,04-0,4
inclusions	10%, length: 0,02-0,6
sorting	moderately sorted sand
	Inclusions
quartz	frequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, clear, 0,08-0,8
mica	frequent, angular, spherical; very elongate, white; dark, 0,02-0,2
reddish inclusions	very frequent, rounded, spherical, reddish brown, 0,04-0,4
black inclusions	infrequent, rounded, spherical, black, 0,04-0,12
brown inclusions	infrequent, rounded, spherical - subelongate, light brown, 0,25-0,8

fragmentation	rim
surface description	smoothed very pale brown, 10YR8/3
	Context Data
site of discovery	Riu Mannu Survey
registration code of object	116 TA 00 998 998 00

sample taken	2009
sample no	M 148/10 representative sample for W-SARD-A-2

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Distribution of fabric type
“W-SARD-A-2”

Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria Pantelleria

production sampling

Representative sample for
“W-SARD-A-2”

M 148/10

There are 6 more samples assigned to fabric type
“W-SARD-A-2”.

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Inclusions

Context Data