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The Doric Frieze

 

The Doric frieze has a very distinctive form with two elements: the grooved triglyph and the intervening metope which may be carved in relief. Reset

 

below diagram of a Doric frieze
 

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© Elizabeth Rankin and Amanda Skeet, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, 2004.