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Five Lines (Greek: πέντε γραμμαί, romanized: pente grammai) is the modern name of an ancient Greek tables game. [1] [2] Two players each move five counters on a board with five lines, with moves likely determined by the roll of a die. The winner may have been the first one to place their pieces on the central "sacred line".
Dado meaning the middle section or main body of a pedestal. The name was first used in English as an architectural term for the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice.
An acroterion, acroterium, (pl. akroteria) [1] is an architectural ornament placed on a flat pedestal called the acroter or plinth, and mounted at the apex or corner of the pediment of a building in the classical style. [2] An acroterion placed at the outer angles of the pediment is an acroterion angularium (angulārium means ‘at the corners’).
Plinth The base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument or structure rests. A plinth is a lower terminus of the face trim on a door that is thicker and often wider than the trim which it augments. Poppyheads Finials or other ornaments which terminate the tops of bench ends, either to pews or stalls.
Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In civil engineering, it is also called basement. The minimum height of the plinth is usually kept as 45 cm (for buildings) [citation needed]. It transmits loads from superstructure to the substructure and acts as the retaining wall for the filling inside the plinth or ...
Plinth: The bottom course of a wall. String course (Belt course or Band course): A decorative horizontal row of masonry, narrower than the other courses, that extends across the façade of a structure or wraps around decorative elements like columns. [1] [2] [4] Sill course: Stone masonry courses at the windowsill, projected out from the wall. [1]
In medieval halls, there was generally a deeply recessed bay window at one or both ends of the dais, which provided retirement or greater privacy than the open hall. [5] The dais area often had its own doorway for admission from the master's chambers, whereas most of the guests entered through a doorway leading into the main area of the hall.
Bust on a round socle Statue with inscription on what is called the socle in French; more likely the plinth in English. In architecture, a socle is a short plinth used to support a pedestal, sculpture, or column.