♦ Glossary ♦
Cymatium
John Henry Parkerthis is mot easy to define, but it may be called a capping moulding to certain parts and subdivisions of the orders in Classic architecture: the projecting mouldings on the upper part of the architrave, (except in the Doric order, where it is denominated tenia,) the corresponding moulding over the frieze, and the small mouling between the corona and cyma of the cornice, are each called by this name; the small moulding, also which runs round the upper part of the modillons of a cornice is their cymatium: and the upper moulding of the abacus of the Roman Doric capital is likewise so called; the upper moulding which serve as a cornice to pedestals, have occasionally the dame name.
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