Roman Amphorae: a digital resource

University of Southampton, 2005 (updated 2014)

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Palestinian grey fabric

Fabric Visual Characteristics

This is very hard, fine and thin-walled, often with a reddish core in a reduced dark grey-black fabric. Common 0.5-2mm rounded red brown inclusions, common fine 2mm limestone inclusions. Lime eruptions/spalling often visible on the surface.

Fabric Petrological Characteristics

The grey fabric is similar in thin section to the orange fabric, with a clean clay matrix displaying a scatter of rounded or subrounded quartz grains and occasional limestone (Peacock & Williams, 1986: Class 46).

Amphora made from this fabric

 

i Late Roman Amphora 5

i Late Roman Amphora 6