Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 82
and theguttce, the heads of thespikes or trenails bywhich the sheathingwas secured. It isknown that in earlyastylar temples the me-topes were left openlike the spaces between the ends of ceiling-raf- fig. 27.—dokic order of the Parthenon. ters. In the earlier peripteral temples, as at Selinus, the… … 50 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. the tradition of a wooden roof-construction showing ex-ternally had not yet been forgotten. A similar wooden origin for the Doric column has beenadvocated by some, who point to the assertion of Pausa-nias that in the Doric Heraion at Olympia the originalwooden columns…
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