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IMBREX (Latin for " tile ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 331 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IMBREX (Latin for "
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tile ")  , in
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architecture the
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term given to the covering
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tile of the
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ancient roof: the
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plain tile is turned up on each
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side and the
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imbrex covers the
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joint . In the simpler type of roof the imbrex is semicircular, but in some of the
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Greek temples it has
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vertical sides and an angular
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top . In the
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temple of
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Apollo at Bassae, where the tiles were in Parian
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marble, the imbrex on one side of the tile and the tile were worked in one piece out of the solid marble .

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