The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fie. 3.—The Greek IonicOrder. Temple of Nike Apteros, necking, which is decorated with the anthemion and divided offfrom the upper part of the shaft by a bead and reel. The en-tablature is divided, like that of the Doric order, into architrave,frieze and cornice. The architrave is subdivided into threefasciae, the upper one pro- £jecting slightly beyond thelower, and crowned bysmall mouldings, the lowerone sometimes carvedwith the Lesbian this is the frieze,sometimes plain and
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fie. 3.—The Greek IonicOrder. Temple of Nike Apteros, necking, which is decorated with the anthemion and divided offfrom the upper part of the shaft by a bead and reel. The en-tablature is divided, like that of the Doric order, into architrave,frieze and cornice. The architrave is subdivided into threefasciae, the upper one pro- £jecting slightly beyond thelower, and crowned bysmall mouldings, the lowerone sometimes carvedwith the Lesbian this is the frieze,sometimes plain and atother times enriched withfigure sculpture in Towrelief. In the Ionian ex-amples there was no frieze,its place being taken bydentils of great size andprojection. The corniceconsists of bedmould,corona and cymatium; inthe Ionian examples thebedmould is of great rich-ness, consisting of a lowermoulding of egg-and-dartwith bead and reel, adentil course above, andanother egg-and-dart withbead and reel above, sink-ing into the soffit of thecorona, which projects inthe Ionian examples morethan half a diameter. Thecorona consists of a plainfascia with mouldin
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