cymatium
Americannoun
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cymatia
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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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Etymology
Origin of cymatium
1555–65; < Latin < Greek kȳmátion, equivalent to kȳmat- (stem of kŷma wave; see cyma) + -ion diminutive suffix
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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
It forms the crowning feature of the Egyptian temples, and took the place of the cymatium in many of the Etruscan temples.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Contrasting pleasingly with this fret and on opposite sides of it are a plain molded ovolo outlining the panel and a small floreated torus supplemented by a molded cymatium within.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
Two fragments of the cymatium cornice, with a pattern of palmettes alternating with palmettes of a plainer form, springing from acanthus leaves as on the cornice of the Erechtheion.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
The cymatium of the architrave should be one seventh of the height of the whole architrave, and its projection the same.
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
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
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