Tholobate

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A tholobate (from Greek: θολοβάτης, romanized: tholobates, lit. 'dome pedestal'), drum or tambour is the upright part of a building on which a dome is raised.^[1] It is generally in the shape of a cylinder or a polygonal prism. The name derives from the tholos, the Greek term for a round building with a roof and a circular wall. Another architectural meaning of "drum" is a circular section of a column shaft