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portico
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the principal porch or entrance to a Greek temple; roofed and opened at th sides
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colonnade
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a range of columns supporting either arches or an entablature and usually one side of a roof
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pediment
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a triangular gable across a portico, door or window; any similar triangular decorative piece over a doorway
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typmpanum
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the space inside the pediment, it is ideal for bold sculpture, as in Greek temples
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entablature
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the top of an ORDER, horizontally divided into cornice, frieze, and architrave; supported by a colmnade
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cornice
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any crowningn projection
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frieze
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the middle section of the entablature; an area below the roof area that often was decorated w/ designs, sculptures, or pics
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`architrave
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cheif beam
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metope
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the spaces bewteen two triglyphs on a doric frieze
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triglyph
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vertical blocks aligned over and between each column. the grooved projecting blocks btwen th emetoopes in a doric frieze
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egg and dart bas relief
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a sculpural carving, embossing, or casting that projects very little from teh bg
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dentil high relief
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square teeth-like projections that are used to decorate the eaves or roof line of a building
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column
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a supoporting pillar consisting of a base, a cylindrical shaft, and a capital
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capital
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th ehead or crowining feature of a column or pilaster
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shaft
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the main body of a column, pilaster, or pier btwen the capital and th ebase
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base
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the lowest part of th estructure
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flute
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shallow vertical grooves on th eshaft of a column
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doric
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oldest and plainest of th ethree ordres of classical greek architecture. it becamem th epreferred style of th egreek mainland and the western colonines
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ionic
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cylindrical shaft with a a volute (scroll shaped) top on the shaft. characterized by fluted columns and prominent volutes on the capitals
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corinthian
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shaft with acanthus (leaves) decorating th captial on top
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caryatid
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a human figure, usually female, functioning as a pier, column or pilaster supporting an entablature.
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pilaster
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a flat-faced representation of a column, projecting from a wall
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stylobate
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platform on which colonnades of a colums are placed.
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stereobate
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the remaining steps of the platform beneath th stylobate and just ablove the leveling course
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