The style of carving of the cymatium with its astragal should be the Lesbian.
Its cymatium is one seventh of the whole height of the frieze, and the projection of the cymatium is the same as its height.
Let the height of a rail be one third of the breadth of a panel, and its cymatium one sixth of the rail.
Over the capitals of the triglyphs the corona is to be placed, with a projection of two thirds of a module, and having a Doric cymatium at the bottom and another at the top.
The cymatium here is one sixth of the whole height of this part.
To the right and left of the lintel, which rests upon the jambs, there are to be projections fashioned like projecting bases and jointed to a nicety with the cymatium itself.
Let the corona and its cymatium at the top of all be carved without ornamentation, and have a projection equal to its height.
Above the cymatium of the lintel, place the frieze of the doorway, of the same height as the lintel, and having a Doric cymatium and Lesbian astragal carved upon it.
The width of the faces of the jambs should be one fourteenth of the height of the aperture, and the cymatium one sixth of the width.
Its cymatium ought to be one sixth of the jamb, with a projection equivalent to its height.
The cymatium of the architrave should be one seventh of the height of the whole architrave, and its projection the same.
The cornices along the horizontal edges of the roof have instead of the cymatium a row of antefixæ, ornaments of terra-cotta or marble placed opposite the foot of each tile-ridge of the roofing.
Mutules were used only over the triglyphs, and were even replaced in some cases by dentils; the corona was made lighter than the Greek, and a cymatium replaced the antefixæ on the lateral cornices.
The roof was of wood; the cymatiumand ornaments, as well as the statues in the pediment, were of terra-cotta, painted and gilded.
In Greek and Roman temples the cymatium of the cornice was the gutter, and the water was discharged through the mouths of lions, whose heads were carved on the same.
Sometimes the cymatium was not carried along the flanks of a temple, in which case the rain fell off the lower edge of the roof tiles.
Cymatium moulding from inner architrave of the south portico of the Erechtheion (E on plan).
This head, is worked from a block which forms the springing stone of both the cymatium and the corona of the pediment.
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.
Greek temple; as spaced they take the place of the cymatium and form a cresting along the sides of the temple.
The mass of the piers is relieved by their polygonal form, a fluted cymatium along their summit, and a repeating design of a flower between two broad leaves below the entablature.
The soffit, both of the upper and of the lower cymatium on the piers, projects sufficiently to admit the application of the customary marble incrustation.
Beneath a conventional cymatium and corona, with projections above the pilasters and central panel of the frieze, is a nicely worked dentil course,--a band of vertical flutes with a drilled tooth in the upper half of each alternate flute.
An astragal with the customary bead and reel separates the cymatium and the corona, while a drilled rope supplies the bed molding above the dentil course.
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cymatium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
