The structural system of temples was essentially post and beam and with massive blocks of stone being the basic raw material for the local craftsman, construction could be carried out with minimal or no mortar.
Trabeated
- architecture which uses a post and beam construction or post-and-lintel construction. (Trabs = Greek for beam)
(Illustration)
see classical architecture.
A rectangular detail, representative of the beams used in post and beam construction. In the Doric order, regularly spaced triglyphs appear on the frieze. The spaces between the triglyphs are called metopes.
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Post and Beam - Comprising of vertical posts supporting horizontal beams; another term for this is ‘trabeated' ...
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