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A more detailed account of these tympana will be found in a following chapter.

From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Heath, Sidney

I am from hence induc't to be of opinion that these tympana were made according to such and such proportions, suitable to such and such notes.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

The French military bands too are equally discordant; so fond are they of drums, that they seem to have converted the tympana of their ears into parchment.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 by Various

A favourite device on carved tympana above portals was the Last Judgment.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

The tympana above this is pierced with eighteen windows filled with geometric tracery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various