A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 187
een these are calledmetopes: under the tri-glyphs and below thetenia of the architraveare placed small drops,or guttse; along the topof the frieze runs a broadfillet, called the capitalof the triglyphs: thesoffit of the cornice hasbroad and shallow blocksworked on it, called mu-tules, one of which… … 179 there is considerable difference. In the pure Grecian ex-amples the column has no base, and its height rises fromabout four to six and a-half diameters; the capital hasa perfectly plain square abacus, and the ovolo is but littleif at all curved in section, except at the top, where itis quirked…
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