Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), D, Demarchi, Denticŭlus

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A “dentil” in architecture (Vitruv. iii. 5, 11). Dentils are small square blocks

Denticuli. (Temple of Dionysus at Teos.)

with interstices between them, used in the entablature of columnar architecture.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)