Mutules are the equivalent of the modillions of the Corinthian order
Found in classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, ...
In the Doric order, the sloped underside of the horizontal geison is decorated with a series of protruding, rectangular mutules aligned with the triglyphs and metopes of the Doric frieze below.
guttae: small peg-like projections carved on the top of the architrave, beneath the mutules and triglyphs of a Doric entablature.
A rectangular block that hangs from the soffit of the cornice in the Doric order. Mutules appear over the triglyphs.
Necking
On a Doric column, the necking appears as a plain section beneath the capital and above the astragal.
The vertical part in the framing of a door, screen or (especially) panelling.Murder holeSmall rectangular trap in the ceiling of an entrance passage in a castle or tower house.Mutules ...
These type of beams were referred as to a mutules. The finishing touches for the roof had to have a flat gables called pediments. The gutter ran along the top of the pediments and ended at a lion's mouth. This acted like a drain.
 See also: Mutule, Triglyph, Doric, Architecture, Greek
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