This fabric is very diagnostic due to its fine calcareous groundmass and the presence of fossiliferous micritic limestone and foraminifera. It is one of the main fabrics identified at Kissonerga-Mosphilia, used for the manufacture of Middle Chalcolithic pottery with the typical Red-on-White surface treatment. It is geologically related to the Miocene Pakhna Formation, which is exposed in the area of Kissonerga.
Its microstructure consists of few to very few voids, comprising mainly meso-planars and channels, related to the presence of vegetal matter. The groundmass appears fairly homogeneous throughout the sections with respect to presence/absence, frequency and sorting of inclusions, textural features, and colour. The inclusions consist of limestone, present in different mixtures (micrite aggregates, sparite-micrite, crystalline calcite), microfossils, few feldspar crystals, monocrystalline quartz, very few to rare volcanic rock fragments, etc.
This fabric is very diagnostic due to its fine calcareous groundmass and the presence of fossiliferous micritic limestone and foraminifera. It is one of the main fabrics identified at Kissonerga-Mosphilia, used for the manufacture of Middle Chalcolithic pottery with the typical Red-on-White surface treatment. It is geologically related to the Miocene Pakhna Formation, which is exposed in the area of Kissonerga.
