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What is a trabeation?

What is a trabeation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) beams used instead of arches or vaulting
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The Tower with its rectangular shape perfectly fits between the two adjacent buildings and it raises on the arcade's trabeation which is supported by columns and pillars.
These include parts of a cornice and trabeation with sculpted round loaves of bread and a large travertine block incised to look like a wicker basket.
In our earlier discussion of trabeation, we pointed out the lintel as the weak element of the structure.
The horizontal shelf above the columns is called the trabeation or entablature.
At the entrance there is an arch with bas-relieves in the trabeation.
The facade faced toward the Forum piazza with 19 columns surmounted on a trabeation.

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