Regula (architecture)

Regula (No. 10)

The regula ( Latin , plural regulae ), the Doric drop bar , is a small plate with usually six hanging conical or cylindrical drops, the guttae , under the protruding bar ( taenia ) of the architrave of the Doric order .

The regulations correspond to the triglyphs of the Doric triglyph frieze. In the early phase of Doric stone architecture, the number of its guttae could only be four, only in the second half of the 6th century BC. BC the number of six guttae became binding. With the 3rd century BC The mixing of the column orders , which began in BC, was able to decorate a regula including drops, however, also the underside of Ionic Kymatien , as it is often to be found in Alexandrian architecture.

literature

• Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner : The older Poro temple of Aphaia on Aegina . De Gruyter, Berlin 1985, pp. 117 ff. ISBN 3-11-010279-X
• Heiner Knell : Architecture of the Greeks: Basic features . Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 1988. ISBN 3-534-80028-1
• Wolfgang Müller-Wiener : Greek construction in antiquity . CH Beck, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-406-32993-4
• Dieter Mertens : The old temple of Hera in Paestum and the archaic architecture in southern Italy . 1993, p. 103 ff.
• Gottfried Gruben : The temples of the Greeks . Hirmer, Munich 2001 (5th edition). ISBN 3-7774-8460-1