CYMA
CYMA (
κῦμα), in architecture, an
ogee, a wave-shaped moulding, consisting of two
curves, the one concave and the other convex. There were two forms, the
cyma recta, which was concave above and
convex below, thus,
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, and the
cyma reversa, which was
convex above and concave below, thus,
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ZZZ.
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. The diminutive
cymatium or
cumatium (
κυμάτιον）
is the more common name. The original form of the
cymatium was, however, a simple hollow (the
cavetto), thus
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. This was called the
cymatium
Doricum, and the other the
cymatium Lesbicum.
(Aesch.
Fr. 70, ed. Dindorf; Böckh,
Corp.
lnscr. vol. i. p. 284;
Vitr. 3.5.7,
4.1.7,
4.3,
§ § 6, 8, iv, 6.2, 5.3, 5; Phot. 565, 18;
Etym.
M. p. 749, 38; Gruter,
Inscr. p. ccvii.;
Müller,
Archöl. d. Kunst, § 274,
Mauch,
Gr. und Röm. Bauord. pp. 6, 7: for examples,
see the profiles on pp. 492-3.)
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