. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Fig. 02.—Plan, looking up, of part op a Greek Doric Peeistile. structures. On this rests a second member called thefrieze, the prominent feature of which is a series of GREEK DOUIC. 97 slightly projecting features, known as triglypLs (threechannels) (Fig. 63), from the channels running downtheir face. These closely resemble, and no doubt actuallyrepresent, the ends of massive timber beams, which musthave connected the colonnade to the wall of the cell inearlier buildings. At the bottom of each is a row ofsmall pendants, kno^vn as guttte, which clos
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Fig. 02.—Plan, looking up, of part op a Greek Doric Peeistile. structures. On this rests a second member called thefrieze, the prominent feature of which is a series of GREEK DOUIC. 97 slightly projecting features, known as triglypLs (threechannels) (Fig. 63), from the channels running downtheir face. These closely resemble, and no doubt actuallyrepresent, the ends of massive timber beams, which musthave connected the colonnade to the wall of the cell inearlier buildings. At the bottom of each is a row ofsmall pendants, kno^vn as guttte, which closely resemblewooden pins, such as would be used to keep a timberbeam in place. The panels between the triglyphs are. Fig. G3.—Details op the Tkiglvpu Fig. Gl.—Details op theMniuLES. usually as wide as they are high. They are termedmetopes, and sculpture commonly occupies them. Thethird division of the entablature, the cornice, representsthe overhanging eaves of the roof. The cornices employed in classic architecture may bealmost invariably subdivided into three parts: the support-ing part, which is the lowest,—the projecting part, which isthe middle,—and the crowning part, which is the highestdivision of the cornice. The supporting part in a GreekDoric cornice is extremely small. There are no mouldings, H 98 CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE. such as we sliall find in almost every other cornice,calculated to cou\^ey the idea of contributing to sustainthe projection of the cornice, but there are slabs of marhle,called mutules (Fig. 6i), dropping towards the outer end,of which one is placed over each triglyph and one betweenevery two. These seem to recall, by their shape, theirjiosition, and their slope al
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