By Jackie Craven, About.com Guide
Pediment over old Carnegie Library entrance, Traverse City, Michigan
Creative Commons Attribution license from Flickr user takomabibelotA pediment is a low-pitched triangular gable on the front of some buildings in the Grecian or Greek Revival style of architecture.
"... the statues of heroic size, completely disengaged from the walls, which filled the tympana, or triangular spaces of the pediments at both ends of the temple." - William Spalding, Italy and the Italian Islands (1841), p. 161
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