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of China. In some places in Greece, as at Eleusis, for 

 example, the tiled roof shows broad bands of white painted 

 tiles at the ridge, hip and eaves, with an intermediate 

 band in the middle of the roof; other bands cross these at 

 right angles to the ridge. In the photographs rectangular 

 areas of dark tiles show between these white bands. A 

 treatment of the roof presenting a similar appearance is 

 often seen in Japan and Siam, in these cases white plaster 

 being used. At many places, as at Delphi, Dimitzana 

 and Catania it is customary "to place upon the tiles angu- 

 lar fragments of stone ; these are placed parallel to the 

 ridge, hips and eaves. Occasionally the same treatment 

 may be seen in Constantinople and Stambonl. 



In none of the various forms of normal tile seen in 

 Greece to-day is there an eaves tegula with turned margin, 

 or an eaves imbrex, closed by a circular disc. In all other 

 respects, however, the normal tile approaches nearer the 

 Asiatic tile, as seen in China, Cochin China, Korea and 

 Japan than does that of any other country west of these 

 regions unless we except the rough example from Poona, 

 India, where the tegula is wide. 



ANCIENT GREECE. 



A general idea of the roofing-tiles of ancient Greece 

 may be gleaned from the article "Tiles" in the Encyclo- 

 paedia Britannica. Under this title the terra-cotta and 

 massive marble tiles used on monumental buildings aro 

 briefly described and figured. 



In a memoir entitled Terrakotten am Geison, etc., by 

 Dorpfeld, Graeber, Borrnmnn and Siebold, a minute de- 

 scription is given of the terra-cotta roofing-tiles, ridge 

 and terminal ridge-tiles, antifixge, etc., of certain ancient 

 Grecian temples. Of particular interest is the description 

 of the roofing-tiles found on the site of the Temple of 

 Hera at Olympia. This temple is one of the earliest ex- 



