pustules
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Similar guttae are carved under the mutules of the Doric cornice, representing the pins driven through the mutules to secure the rafters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
In the temples at Bassae, Paestum and Selinus, instances have been found where the guttae had been carved separately and sunk into holes cut in the soffit of the mutules and the regula.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Just as mutules represent the projection of the principal rafters, so dentils in the Ionic are an imitation of the projections of the common rafters.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The downward force is embodied in the horizontal lines of the lintel, architrave, cornice, and in the hanging mutules and gutta.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
From that practice, like the triglyphs from the arrangement of the tie-beams, the system of mutules under the coronae was devised from the projections of the principal rafters.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
