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Title: Architecture, classic and early Christian
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 Slater, John, 1847-1924
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd., St. Dunstan's House, Fetter, Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
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s being combined to fortifythe supporting portion, v These have sometimes beentermed the bed mouldings ; and among them occurs oneAvhich is almost typical of the order, and is termed adentil band. This moulding presents the appearance ofa plain square band of stone, in which a series of cuts hadbeen made dividing it into blocks somewhat resemblingteeth, whence the name. Such an ornament is morenaturally constructed in wood than in stone or marble, butif the real derivation of the Ionic order, as of the Doric,be in fact from timber structures, the dentil band isapparently the only feature in which that origin can nowbe traced. The crowning member of the cornice is apartly hollow moulding, technically called a cyma recta,less vigorous than the convex ovolo, of the Doric : thismoulding, and some of the bed mouldings, Avere com-monly enriched with carving. Altogether more slender-ness and less vigour, more carved enrichment and lessl)ainted decoration, more reliance on architectural orna-
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Tig. ro.—The Iosjc Oedek. From Pbiese, Asia JIi.noe.

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