Turkey/Southwest
Roman
Cooking/Food production
This is a coarse clay paste with large intermediate rock fragments, identified as diorite. It represents the coarser variant of petrofabric LIM-CALC/DIORITE_03. Common inclusions comprise fine monocrystalline quartz, micritic limestone and lesser amounts of plagioclase, biotite and sparite. Accessories include chert, hornblende, clinopyroxene and foraminifera. The petrofabric relates to an igneous and sedimentary geology. Considering the frequency of vessels made of this clay paste in Limyra and geology of the Bay of Finike (Lycia), a regional provenance can be proposed. Most likely, the clay can be associated with the easternmost end of the Bay close to modern Yesilköy where ophiolites are exposed.
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fine monocrystalline quartz, micritic limestone and lesser amounts of plagioclase, biotite and sparite
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LIM-CALC/DIORITE_03
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