Page:An Elementary History of Art.djvu/64

u Gkeek Architecture. Cornice. Frieze, with triglyphs and metopes. Architrave. Capital. examples filled in with stone tablets, adorned with sculptures in relief. Above the triglyphs and metopes forming the frieze rises the third and last division of the entab- lature, — the cornice. Thin plates, called mutules, placed over each triglyph and each metope, connect them with the cornice. The soffits (under surfaces) of the mutules are worked into three rows of guttce (i. e. drops). The Greek Doric order in many of the features of its entabla- ture bears a resem- blance to the forms natural to timber structures; not perhaps so close as that exhi- bited by the Lycian tombs (see Fig. 15), but still too marked to be readily accounted for Shaft. Fig. 18. —Doric Order. From the Temple of Theseus at Athens. on any other supposition than that timber buildings must have been the originals. This is especially the case with the triglyphs, the guttse, and the mutules. The pediment, although not forming part of the order