In the temples at Bassae, Paestum and Selinus, instances have been found where the guttae had been carved separately and sunk into holes cut in the soffit of the mutules and the regula.
Similar guttae are carved under the mutules of the Doric cornice, representing the pins driven through the mutules to secure the rafters.
Above the beams and walls let the mutules project to a distance equal to one quarter of the height of a column; along the front of them nail casings; above, build the tympanum of the pediment either in masonry or in wood.
The scheme of triglyphs and mutules in Doric buildings was, therefore, the imitative device that I have described.
Hence generally, in buildings of stone and marble, the mutules are carved with a downward slant, in imitation of the principal rafters.
In painted scenery, for example, columns may appear to jut out, mutules to project, and statues to be standing in the foreground, although the picture is of course perfectly flat.
From that practice, like the triglyphs from the arrangement of the tie-beams, the system of mutules under the coronae was devised from the projections of the principal rafters.
Just as mutules represent the projection of the principal rafters, so dentils in the Ionic are an imitation of the projections of the common rafters.
The system of triglyphs and mutules was invented for the Doric order, and similarly the scheme of dentils belongs to the Ionic, in which there are proper grounds for its use in buildings.
The doorway of the east front, which is the entrance from the drive, is Doric and has the customary triglyphs, mutules and guttæ.
The mutules above the triglyphs have the same great breadth; in one instance there remains above the metope only space for half a mutule.
Carved in stone beneath the regulas and mutules of the Doric entablature, the trunnels mark the position of these primitive constructive features.
The corona was usually not inclined like this member in the Doric cornice; the mutules lost their guttae, and became simplified to plain consoles.
The members of the cornice stand in no such relation to the interior construction of beams and rafters as did the mutules and trunnels of the Doric temples.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutules" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
