ANTEFIX • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Antefix

... by narrow fillets, and was usually provided with a simple moulded base on a square plinth. Mutules were used only over the triglyphs, and were even replaced in some cases by dentils; the corona was made lighter than the Greek, and a cymatium replaced the antefix on the lateral cornices. The Ionic underwent fewer changes, and these principally in the smaller mouldings and details of the capital. The column was nine diameters high (Fig. 43). The Corinthian was made into an independent ...

— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin