Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
tambores de columna
English translation:
column drums
Spanish term
Spain
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Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, Galician to English, English
tambores de columna
From a text on a tower at Puig de sa Morisca, Mallorca.
Are these simply "sections of columns", or perhaps "column bases" or something?
UK Eng please.
Thanks in advance.
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FVS (X)
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| 4 | column drum sections |
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Proposed translations
column drum
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Note added at 5 mins (2011-03-30 17:10:12 GMT)
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tambor de columna - see http://europeana.eu/portal/record/09407/8E6897ADD2C3F09CCBB7...
This is the best preserved column drum from the Temple of Artemis. It has the remains of seven
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_ob...
Column drum from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus.Subject unidentified, possibly l-r Thanatos, Alkestis, Hermes, Persephone and Hades (unseen), ca. .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Column_drum_Ephesus.JPG
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The column drums, averaging 2.5 tons each, can be seen scattered ...
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/08/04_zeus.shtm...
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OK. The literal is very common in the more technical areas I find because the Spanish, bless them, have often lifted English terms.
The British Museum reference should convince you. They do not get these things wrong.
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It's really just a column section.
| Oh no! Another classic case of me assuming the literal answer couldn't possibly be right and checking all sorts of other things instead! Thank you, FVS, for enlightening me. I'll check out your links. |
| Yep - quite right, the British Museum do not tend to get these things wrong. In any case, there are also heaps of other reliable hits. Thanks so much! :) |
column drum sections
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FVS (X)
: I think the drum IS the section. If you think about it each section is in the shape of a drum.// Yes. Look at my Spanish reference. The size of the drum is 39cm high by 72 wide.
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yup, but there are other sections (square, etc.) if there's anything in excess in the expression, it's "column"
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Cynthia Coan
: But even if a drum didn't comprise the entire section of a column, I question the need to use the word "section" here. With or without sections, a drum or drums could be considered as belonging to an entire column.
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