Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927 · Boston : Ginn · leaf 274
squares between thetriglyphs. On the Parthenon they were decorated withfigures in high relief; on other temples they were some-times filled with paintings or left entirely undecorated.This probably was the case on the Zeus temple inOlympia, for the carved square slabs from that templewhich are… … THE PARTHENON METOPES 213 a continuous frieze, which is an ornament unknown tostrictly Doric temples. It was copied from Ionic build-ings, and is known as the Ionic frieze. To distinguishthe two groups of sculpture on the Parthenon briefly,the outer figures of the Doric frieze are called…
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