Geison
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Geison is an architectural term of relevance particularly to ancient Greek and Roman buildings, as well as archaeological publications of the same. The geison is the part of the entablature that proje
Labeled image of the Doric order entablature
The entablature of the Hephaisteion (temple of Hephaistos) in Athens, showing geisa.
The underside of a corner horizontal geison block from Lycosura showing mutules with guttae
Horizontal and raking geisa of the Ionic/Corinthian order on the Arch of Hadrian.
Triglyph
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Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze in classical architecture, so called because of the angular channels in them. The rectangular recessed spaces
John Wood's The Circus Bath, Somerset (1754), triglyphs and decorated metopes
Temple of Concordia, Agrigento, Sicily, with plain metopes
A metope (L) and triglyph (R) cut from one block from Stratos.
Triglyph blocks with slots for the insertion of metopes in the Marmaria at Delphi.