Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Turris Stratōnis, Tympănum

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Tympănum

（τύμπανον).

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A tambourine, used more especially at the noisy revels of Dionysus and Cybelé; a broad rim of wood or metal covered with skin; sometimes also set round with a concave and semicircular sound-board.

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A treadwheel for raising heavy weights and worked by man-power (Lucret. iv. 907).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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