Pseudodip´teros (pseudo from Gr. ψευδής, false; dipteros, see above). A temple planned upon the dipteral arrangement, in which the inner rank of columns surrounding the cella is wanting.
Pseudoperip´teros (pseudo from Gr. ψευδής, false; peripteros, see above). A temple in which the columns surrounding the cella are engaged upon a continuous enclosure wall, as in the great temple of Acragas (Agrigentum).
Ptero´ma (Gr.; from πτερόν, wing). The passage surrounding the cella of a peripteral temple.
Py´lon (Gr.; from πύλη, gate). The towers of truncated pyramidal form on either side of the gateways of Egyptian temples.
Quirk. In architectural usage, a moulding formed by a sharp turn in a continuous line.
Reed. In architectural usage, a small convex moulding applied to a regular surface and frequently repeated. The term is commonly employed for the ornamentation of columns by reversed channels or flutes.
Reg´ula (Lat. any straight piece of wood, a ruler). The short band, corresponding to the triglyph, beneath the tænia moulding which crowns the epistyle; the listel. Originally determined by the slat of wood which strengthened the wall-plate at the point of its perforation by the trunnels.
Revet´ment, vb. to revete (Fr. revêtement, from revêtir, to clothe). A facing of metal, stone, or wood encasing a kernel—usually of some less firm or sightly material.
Round´el, dim. roundlet. A moulding of semicircular profile.
Scamil´lus (Lat. little bench, foot-stool). A slight projection, cut by means of a joggle, upon a constructive feature in such a manner as to prevent its adjacent edges from touching and possibly chipping those of the next block. A scamillus thus creates the incision between the upper drum of the shaft and the necking of the Doric capital, and is also occasionally inserted between the top of the abacus and the soffit of the epistyle.