A panel on the frieze of a Greek temple.

the panel, plain or sculptured, between the triglyphs of a Doric entablature

A square slab, decorated or plain, inserted in the opening between adjoining ceiling beams.

A plain or decorated space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze.

in a sculpture frieze, the square sections between the triglyphs. For more information, see a architectural drawing of a metope and an image of the metope of Berlin L 21.1.

The normal definition of metope is only applicable to Doric temples. It means the panels of brick wall between the holes left for the ends of the beams of the Doric ceiling, and applied afterwards to the sunk panels between the triglyphs. Vitruvius uses the term in this fragment to indicate the spaces between the dentils. Back

The panel between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often sculptured in relief.

A slab of stone sculpted with reliefs that on a Doric frieze alternate with Triglyphs.

Metopes are part of the Doric frieze course which is located above the architrave (which is the course found directly above the columns). Metopes are rectangular spaces set off by sections of vertical lines known as triglyphs. The metopes on Greek temples were often decorated with relief sculpture.

A decorated panel found between the trigyphs on the Frieze of a Doric entablature.

(Metopse) the space between the triglyphs in the frieze of the Doric order.

A square panel on the side of a temple, often filled with sculpture in relief.

square panel, often sculpted, that alternated with the triglyph to form a frieze that decorated buildings of the Greek Doric order

literally, "looking beyond"; that part of the frieze of a Doric temple which is left blank (or filled with figural sculpture) and which alternates with the triglyphs