TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 25 



GREECE. 



Tlie normal tile is the only fonii seen in Greece and the 

 adjacent islands. The nsnal narrow form {imb.) common 

 to the Mediterranean countries is also the prevailing form 

 in Greece. In many instances the two elements of the 

 tile are less cylindrical than those of Italy. Greece is the 

 only countr}' in Europe in which the broad, curved tegula 

 with narrow imbrex is seen. In Eleusis, roofs covered 

 with this typical normal tile occur. In Messenia the wide 

 tegula is used as an imbrex, as in China. On the old 

 cathedral at Athens, a Byzantine structure dating back to 

 the early part of the thirteenth century, a large curved 



tegula with narrow 

 /f^^''^)^^^,^^ imbrex is found 



(fig. 36) ; all the 

 courses are thickly 

 Fig. 30. plastered and bear 



the marks of great age, and at the eaves the imbrex is 

 snpported some distance from the tegula by a mass of 

 stucco. The dome is also covered with the same kind of 

 tiling, the teguloe being cut tapering as they approach the 

 apex of the (h)me, the iml)rices standing out as prominent 

 longitudinal ribs from the apex of the dome to its base. 

 There is also another Byzantine church in Athens roofed 

 with the same kind of tile. 



In the modern houses at Athens and in other places the 

 tiles are more flattened than is usual with this form, and 

 at the eaves the upper and lower elements are separated 

 by a considerable space and filled with white stucco. This 

 presents the a[)pearance of an imbricated edge along the 

 eaves. With the exception of certain examples in Spain 

 this is the only attempt, so far as I have been able to as- 

 certain, at the ornamentation of the eaves tiles seen west 



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