hieroglyphs

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Triglyph′ic, -al, consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs: containing three sets of characters or sculptures.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The several compartments are divided by gilded pilasters; the cornices, architraves, and friezes, are very pretty and tasteful; and in the inter-columniations are one or two triglyphs.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

On the other hand, the frieze has no triglyphs, and but rarely sculpture.

From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

Higher still was the theater, which commanded a glorious view of Lesbos and the sea, and those various buildings which are now a wilderness of broken columns, triglyphs, and friezes.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

For the term "metope" is used of the intervals between dentils as well as of those between triglyphs.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio