u/NoAnxiety2242

I am currently reading Gombrich's "The Story of Art" and here's what he says about the Colosseum: "Indeed, he has applied all the three styles of building used for Greek Temples. The ground floor is a variation on the Doric style -even the metopes and triglyphs are preserved; the second storey has Ionic, and the third and fourth Corinthian half-columns."

But I can't see any metopes or triglyphs on the ground floor of the Colosseum. Are my eyes failing me, or has Gombrich made a mistake here?

And after doing some research online, I've seen other sources say that the lower floor of the Colosseum has a plain frieze in the Tuscan order and that made more sense to me.