metope

metope

One of the recessed panels between the triglyphs, often with the same height as the triglyph, but wider, approximately square.

Description: The metopes are thin slabs, grooved into the triglyph. Often the metopes bear carved relief, but they were also left plain. When so, they have a flat projecting band across their tops.

• Triglyph

Metope(2), daughter of the river Ladon

• wife of Asopus: Apollod. 3.12.5

Metope(3), wife of the river Sangarius

• mother of Hecuba: Apollod. 3.12.4