Cavetto cornice Cornice



ancient egyptian architectural tradition made special use of large cavetto mouldings cornice, short fillet (plain vertical face) above, , torus moulding (convex semi-circle) below. cavetto cornice known egyptian cornice , hollow , roll or gorge cornice , , has been suggested reminiscence in stone architecture of primitive use of bound bunches of reeds supports buildings, weight of roof bending tops out.


the cavetto cornice, forming less quarter-circle, influenced eygpt s neighbours , appearing in ancient greek architecture, seen in syria , ancient iran, example @ tachara palace of darius @ persepolis, completed in 486 bc. inspired precedent, revived ardashir (r. 224–41 ad), founder of sasanian dynasty.


the cavetto took place of cymatium in many etruscan temples, painted vertical tongue patterns, , combined distinctive etruscan round moulding , painted scales.


additional more-obscure varieties of cornice include architrave cornice, bracketed cornice, , modillion cornice.









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