TriRRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



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condition of things at the Zeus Temple at Otympia as due 

 to the sliding down of the tiles in this manner. 



Graeber presents a restoration of the edge of the roof 

 of Temple C. Selinus, Sicily (fig. 40). Here the elevated 

 process or antifixa of the eaves imbrex is now detached, 

 and forms a separate piece, which is nailed to the stone 

 coping, and the turned margin of the eaves tegula is also 

 separate, and is nailed to the face of the coping-stone. 

 These various elements were moulded in relief and beau- 

 tifully decorated in polychrome. This temple is supposed 

 to date from 600 B. c. 



FIG. 40. 



Reference has been made to the marble tiles following 

 the form of the later terra-cotta tiles. It has also been 

 shown that the pan tile of Europe has been derived from 

 the normal tile by combining in one piece the upper and 

 lower elements. It is interesting to observe that in the 

 marble tiles of ancient Greece the same combination is 

 shown in some, where the imbrex and flat tegula with up- 

 turned edge are combined, and, curiously enough, the 

 lap is to the right, as followed by the pan tile of Europe. 



ITALY. 



Throughout Italy, the usual covering for house roofs is 

 the normal tile (imb.). The tiles vary somewhat in size. 

 In Puvia and Eavenna the tiles are quite large, and in 



