Gabb, Thomas: Finis pyramidis or Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific end of the great pyramid of Giza, or ancient Memphis, in Egypt, and of the first standard of linear measure (Retford, 1806)

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therefore, cased with thin pieces of board, cut in glyphs,
and painted with red wax ; hence is derived the orna-
ment called, triglyph : and that cavities were left in the
masonry, for the reception of these ends of joists, and
similar cavities also, for the ends of spars, which
boles, or cavities, the Greeks called, W«ç, and the
Italians nicknamed them pigeon holes ; hence, he says,
the spaces between these,'<netutwere denominated, f«Wn,
which proves, by the bye, this term should be wrote
inetope, not methope ; for '«ij, with an asper, has a
different signification. The ancients, he tells us, when
they imitated these inventions in stone,or marble, judg-
ed the very same dispositions and forms should be
retained, since what existed in fact, should not be omit-
ted in picture. And he explodes the opinion of the
holes, left in the masonry, for triglyphs and denticules,
being originally intended for windows; because,says he,
a triglyph has place at the angle, where a window could
not be made. This is the substance of the chapter ;
and his observations are realized, in the Parthenon at
Athens.

Vitruvius, however, does not servilely follow the
injunctions contained in this chapter of origins, when
he gives the denticules place immediately on the Ionic
freeze ; for to suppose the ends of the assares or spars,
to be there in sight, is manifestly to imply, that the
principals of the roof were lodged on the epistyles, and
their ends are said to have given rise, not to triglyphs
in a freeze, but to mutiles under the assares, and above
the freeze, which freeze receives the ends of the tigna,
in joists, which reposed on the epistyles. And, since
Vitruvius took a liberty himself, with these ancient
origins ; we may conclude, they began to be a little

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