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TYMPANON, or TYMPANUM (Gr. rbg ravov, from T117rTEaV, to strike), a name applied by the Romans to both kettledrum and tambourine, in the case of the latter sometimes qualified by leve. The tympanum leve, generally included among the tympana, described as being like a. sieve, was the tambourine used in the rites
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entablature and the sloping cornice of the pediment. Though sometimes left plain, in the most celebrated Greek temples it was filled with sculpture of the highest standard ever attained. In Romanesque and ' Gothic
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architrave of a door and the discharging arch over it, which was also enriched either with geometrical patterns or in later work
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