Cymatium
κῦμα
Cymatium (κῦμα, κυμάτιον), in arch. (1) the volute of an Ionic capital (Vitr. 3.5, 7; 4.1, 7); (2) a moulding, either the cavetto (cy. doricum), or the cyma recta or revesa (cy. lesbium, κ. Λἐσβιον). Vitruvius mentions the cymatium of a lintel (4.6, 2), of the epistyle (3.5, 10), and of the cornice (3.5, 11). The Greek term occurs: κῦμα Λέσβιον, Aesch. Thalamopoei, fr. 224 Dind., 76 Herm.; κυμάτιον, C. I. G. 160, 37; LXX. Ex. 25; cumatium, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 1, 577.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.