Upper Column and Entablature - cont -
A Frieze is the central member of an entablature, which is usually, as it is here, a single flat molding called a fascia.
A Cornice is the top member of an entablature and thus the top member of
the order of architecture. A true cornice, as found in classical Roman architecture,
the architecture of the Italian Renaissance, and in the many classical revivals
to the present day, has three parts: a bedmolding, a corona, and a cymatium.
This entablature, which has only the lower two parts, the bedmolding and corona,
has a truncated cornice.
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