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Pregunta | Respuesta |
Abacus | Square slab on top of column |
Acanthus Leaf | Motif used on Corinthian Columns |
Acroterion | Ornamentation on the Apex or corners of a Pediment |
Adyton | Extra room inside the naos |
Amphiprostlye | Having columns in front of, not between, the antae, on both ends of the temple |
Anta (Antae) | Wall that juts out to form a porch |
In antis | Latin: between the antae |
Architrave | Blank area below frieze and above the columns |
Arris | Sharp ridge where flutes meet (usually on Doric columns) |
Capital | Top of a column |
Cella | Latin: naos (inner room of temple) |
Coffer | Decorative panel in the ceiling |
Corinthian | Order of architecture. More elaborate than ionic with leafy capitals |
Cornice | Top of the entablature just below the pediment |
Dentil | Latin: little tooth Moulding made of small squares that hang down |
Dipteral | Having two rows of columns |
Distyle | Having two columns |
Doric | Order of architecture; Plain capitals, columns are squat with 20 flutes and no base "Masculine" |
Drum | One chunk of column |
Echinus | Rounded pad-like layer at the top of a column below the abacus |
Engaged | Of a column; when it is attached to the main wall with a small strut or is sunken in |
Entablature | Entire section above columns, below the pediment |
Entasis | Bulge of a column |
Fluting | The grooves going down a column |
Frieze | A band of decoration |
Doric frieze | Made up of metopes and triglyphs |
Ionic (or continuous) frieze | Continuous scene |
Gable | The triangle formed by the end of the roofline; where the pediment goes |
Geison | Cornice |
Raking Geison | Upper edges of the pediment |
Guttae | Drops below mutules or regulae Latin: drops |
Hexastyle | Having six columns |
Ionic | Order of architecture: slender columns with volutes and a base. Generally has 24 flutes with flat area between flutes "Feminine" |
Metope | Rectangle, often sculpted, on a Doric frieze |
Mutule | Rectangle block under the cornice of a Doric temple; supposedly represents wooden pegs of earlier ages |
Octostyle | Having eight Columns |
Opisthodomos | Rear porch, often used to store treasure |
Order | Set of loosely-defined style rules for designing a temple; Doric, Ionic or Corinthian |
Palmette | Decoration that resembles a palm tree |
Parapet | Low wall |
Pediment | Sculpture within gable |
Peripteral | Having columns the whole way round |
Peristyle | Area around the temple within the columns |
Pilaster | Similar to engaged column but purely decorational |
Prostyle | Having columns in front of the antae not between |
Pronaos | Front porch |
Regula | Block of moulding below a triglyph |
Stereobate | Bottom steps of a temple |
Stylobate | The top step/level on which a column sits |
Tetrastyle | Having four columns |
Tholos | Round temple (also called monopteros) |
Triglyph | Area on Doric temple with vertical grooves |
Tympanum | The triangular space behind pedimental sculpture |
Volute | Scroll on top of an Ionic column |
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