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Brindisi amphora fabric |
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Visual characteristicsA fairly hard, slightly rough fabric containing a few small white inclusions of limestone. Reddish-yellow to buff throughout (5YR 7/6-7.5YR 7/4). |
PetrologySamples from Apani contain frequent subangular quartz grains and small fragments of limestone, some of it fossiliferous, together with flecks of mica and occasional grains of pyroxene (Peacock & Williams, 1986: Class 1). |