metope in a sentence

Examples

1. A story is also described how Echetus had a daughter, Metope, who had an intrigue with a lover; as a punishment Echetus mutilated the lover and blinded Metope by piercing her eyes with bronze needles.
2. The travel writer Edward Daniel Clarke happened to be on the Acropolis one day in September 1802, when Elgin's men detached a large sculpted slab ( called a metope ) from the temple's outer frieze.
3. "I have, my Lord, " he wrote to Elgin, " the pleasure of announcing to you the possession of the 8th metope, that one where there is the Centaur carrying off the woman.
4. After the best surviving pieces, including around 70 6th-century metope reliefs, were excavated and moved to the museum at Paestum, there is very little original to see at the site itself other than the lowest courses of the buildings.
5. Though in most respects the Greek temple frontage is a careful exercise in revivalism, there are minimal plain bases to the thick fluted columns and, despite having metope reliefs and a large group of sculpture in the pediment, there are no triglyphs or guttae.
6. A beautifully proportioned mahogany and white staircase winds four levels to the top of the house, which is crowned with Clemens's clerestory library, a fanciful, light-suffused space where Dreyfuss employed an ornamental triglyph-and-metope Doric frieze with abandon.
7. Although a broadly parallel evolution with early, middle, and younger Bell Beaker Culture was detected, the Southern Germany middle Bell Beaker development of metope decorations and stamp and furrow engraving techniques do not appear on beakers in Austria-Western Hungary, and handled beakers are completely absent.
8. His picturesque details belong to anecdote and fable : in all the depictions, whether she straddles the bull, as in archaic vase-paintings or the ruined metope fragment from Sikyon, or sits gracefully sidesaddle as in a mosaic from North Africa, there is no trace of fear.
9. In classical architecture, a "'metope "'( ?????? ) is a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze, which is a decorative band of alternating triglyphs and metopes above the architrave of a building of the Doric order.
10. Archaic reliefs have survived from many tombs, and from larger buildings at Foce del Sele ( now in the museum at Paestum ) in Italy, with two groups of metope panels, from about 550 and 510, and the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi, with friezes and a small pediment.