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cymatia

  • plural
    of cymation.
    cymation
    noun
  • plural
    of cymatium.
    cymatium
    noun
    the uppermost member of a classical cornice or of a cornice of similar form: usually a cyma recta in classical examples.

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Besides, there are fasciae running all round under the cymatia on the jambs, and apportioned so as to be equal to three sevenths of a jamb, excluding the cymatium.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

So the corona with its cymatia is half a module in height.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

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