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David
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The finer Tripolitanian fabric is hard, with rough surfaces and a hackly fracture in which some quartz grains can be seen, pinkish-red (10YR 6/6) in colour, and with white surfaces resulting from the use of saline water. The finer Tripolitanian fabric has been attested at the Zitha kiln.
In thin section the finer Tripolitanian fabric displays a groundmass which is relatively clean with a scatter of fine quartz grains average size 0.05 mm across. Occasional large quartz grains up to 0.5 mm occur, with a few fragments of cryptocrystalline limestone (Peacock & Williams, 1986: Class 36).
i Tripolitanian 3
i Ancient Tripolitanian Amphora
i Tripolitanian 1
i Tripolitanian 2