guttae
- plural of gutta.
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Three rows of six guttae each are attached to the under surface of a mutule.
From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow
The guttae, extending as wide as the triglyphs and beneath the taenia, should hang down for one sixth of a module, including their regula.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The height of the architrave, including taenia and guttae, is one module, and of the taenia, one seventh of a module.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In the Parthenon the frieze takes the place of the internal metopes, of which however a trace remains in the guttae which occur at regular intervals below the frieze, and which imply triglyphs.—Cockerell,
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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
