, or Metopa, in Architecture, the square space between the triglyphs of the Doric Freeze; which among the Ancients used to be adorned with the heads of beasts, basons, vases, and other instruments used in sacrificing.
A Demi-Metope is a space somewhat less than half a Metope, at the corner of the Doric Freeze.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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