Greek Archaic had different temple styles {Greek temple}: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. Temple stones fit together, with no clay, concrete, or cement. Temple roofs were terra-cotta tiles on wood rafters over wood beams.
Archaic temples had stepped platform, platform columns, and stones above columns {entablature}|.
Doric columns had tops {capital, column} including echinus and abacus.
Doric columns had capitals including lower flared piece {echinus} and abacus.
Doric columns had capitals including echinus and higher thick piece {abacus, column}.
Ionic columns had bottom flat base, capital, deeper fluting, and curved piece {volute}| between echinus and abacus. Corinthian columns had more-elaborate volutes.
Doric columns taper and are slightly convex {entasis}, but Ionic columns are cylindrical.
Entablature included stone blocks {architrave}| {epistyle}, resting on columns, around top. Entablatures had stone-block friezes over architraves.
Doric friezes had regularly repeated blocks {triglyph}.
Doric friezes had triglyphs with two vertical grooves {glyph, frieze}.
Doric friezes had triglyphs with two half-grooves {chamfer} alternating with metope.
Doric friezes had triglyphs with glyph and two chamfer alternating with blank spaces {metope}. Ionic friezes had three vertical small rectangles alternating with reliefs.
Entablatures had triangles {pediment}| between flat ceiling and sloping roof sides, on short sides.
Entablatures had bands {frieze}| around building tops, on long sides.
Entablatures had horizontal pieces on long sides and triangular stones on short sides {facade, temple}, projecting over cornice.
Entablatures had horizontal pieces on long sides and facades projecting over frieze tops {cornice}|.
Temples had a central room {cella} {naos} for god image. In front of cella was a pronaos walled porch with two front columns. Closed porches can be behind cella. Cella and pronaos were like megaron of Mycenaeans.
In large temples, columns {colonnade}| {peristyle} went around naos and pronaos.
Archaic temples {Doric temple} had an oldest style.
Archaic temples {Ionic temple} had a newer style.
Archaic temples {Corinthian temple} can vary Ionic style.
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