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There was also a band of Doric triglyphs made of simple bricks running below the pediment on the central block, a detail which can be found on Soane's buildings at the Chelsea Hospital.

Its roots, however, remain classical as may be understood by noting that Smith's Deco ornament typically abstracts classical triglyphs, acroteria, quadrant fans, chevrons, and volutes.

In discussing columns and capitals for example orders are delineated: Doric characteristics are its frieze with alternating metopes and triglyphs; Ionic with characteristic scrolled capitals and fluted columns; and Corinthian with its capital covered with rows of acanthus leaves.

He states that it seems plausible to assume "at one time the triglyphs did mask the ends of wooden beams," and that "the droplike shapes below, called guttae," seen also in many twentieth-century architecture "are the descendants of wooden pegs (26)" However, form as the primogenitor of function transcended architecture to transportation.

The central triglyphs used to separate the two main panels exhibit a good deal of variety.

We applied the same methodology on the other complex parts of the temple, such as the ceiling and triglyphs and retained the curvature of the original model.

For example, the various parts of a classical cornice, all the clutter of dentils, triglyphs, metopes, guttae, architraves and other obscure objects, are merely the vestiges of the ends of roof rafters, the beams on which they rested, pegs to hold them in place, and so on.

Carving is sharp and crisp, as if contemporary, despite being constructed over 16 centuries ago and the stylized details (presumed, like classical triglyphs, to be petrified timber details) are typical of the Aksumite style.

Built of Portland stone and Cornish granite, the octagonal building is built in strict Doric style, decorated with flat, plain pilasters at the edges of the four wider sides as well as two round Doric pillars at the front of the entrance portico, and a Doric frieze of triglyphs - three-grooved tablets - and blank metopes, or spaces, between them under the cornice of the main building and its three aedicules.