Taenia (architecture)

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Detail of the entablature at the Temple of Segesta

In architecture, Taenia is the protruding bar on the architrave of the Doric order . It separates the architrave from the frieze above it with the triglyphs and metopes .

At the bottom of the taenia below the triglyphs are the regulae with the guttae .

literature

  • John Summerson : The Classical Language of Architecture. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1983, p. 136.