""'Cymatium femorale " "'is a species of predatory sea snail, a family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.
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""'Cymatium raderi " "'is a species of predatory sea snail, a family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.
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""'Cymatium ranzanii " "'is a species of predatory sea snail, a family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.
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""'Cymatium tigrinum " "'is a species of predatory sea snail, a family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.
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The cavetto took the place of the cymatium in many Etruscan temples, often painted with vertical " tongue " patterns, and combined with the distinctive " Etruscan round moulding ", often painted with scales.
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"' Cymatium "'molding appears at the top of the cornice in the classical order, and made of the s-shaped palmette or egg-and-dart ornament on the surface of the molding.
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A cavetto alone was sometimes employed in the place of the cymatium of a cornice, as in the Doric order of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, one of the standard models for revived classical architecture from the Renaissance onwards.
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The cymatium houses a painting portraying the " Coronation of the Virgin ", while at the base of the two columns are paintings, attributed to Michele Curia, the " Master of Montecalvario ", of two unidentified saints.
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It was found at ancient Dikaia in 1927, and is an example of late Ionian art of the Late Archaic period dated to 300 BC . This slab is without a crown and has decorations of the Lesbian cymatium in its top portion.
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The architrave, the lowest band, is split from bottom to top into the broad fascia, the guttae or " drips " ( below the triglyph in the frieze ), and the " taenia " below the projecting cymatium ).
