Opus fictile, vel figlina, est ars fictile coquendi et in vasa et catinos creandi, saepe cum torno.[1][2]Merces fictiles ex argilla efficiuntur,[3] cuius maiora genera sunt testeus, stoneware, et porcellanum. Propria figlinae definitio, ab ASTM promulgata, est "omnes merces ceramicae coctae quae argillam cum formantur continent, praeter opera technica, structuralia, refractoria."[4] Nonnulli autem archaeologi, aliam notionem adhibentes, res ceramicas sicut figurinas a rationibusmateriisque similibus et eisdem hominibus factas, sed non vasa, excludunt.[5]
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↑Allen Dinsdale, Pottery Science: Materials, Process and Products (Ellis Horwood Limited, 1986).
↑"All fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products," Standard Terminology Of Ceramic Whitewares And Related Products (ASTM C 242–01, 2007).
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