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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 " See also:tile ")  , in See also:architecture the See also:term given to the covering See also:tile of the See also:ancient roof: the See also:plain tile is turned up on each See also:side and the See also:imbrex covers the See also:joint . In the simpler type of roof the imbrex is semicircular, but in some of the See also:Greek temples it has See also:vertical sides and an angular See also:top . In the See also:temple of See also:Apollo at Bassae, where the tiles were in Parian See also: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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