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.
Doric order
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The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the s
The Doric order of the Parthenon. Triglyphs marked "a", metopes "b", guttae "c" and mutules under the soffit "d"
The Roman Doric order from the Theater of Marcellus: triglyphs centered over the end column
Original Doric polychromy
Upper parts, labelled