Terra Verde. (See Green Earth.)
Terraglia. (See Pottery.)
Terretta, It. (See Terra di Lava.)
Terry Velvet. A kind of silk plush or ribbed velvet.
Tertiary Colours, produced by the mixture of two secondary colours, are greys, inclining to the primary or secondary colour which is in excess in their composition. (Consult Chevreuil on Colours.)
Teruncius, R. A silver coin equal in value to one-fourth of an as.
Tessela, R. (diminutive of tessera). A small cube of stone or marble used for making mosaic pavements (tesselatum opus or tesselata structura).
Tesselated pavement. Inlaid or mosaic work composed of tesselæ. Tesselatum flagrum. (See Flagrum.) Cf. Musivum Opus. (Consult Buckman and Newmarch, Remains of Roman Art in Cirencester.)
Tessera, R. (Gr. κύβος). A cube, a die; tesseræ, tesseræ lusoriæ, dice of ivory, bone, or wood; the dice-box is fritillus. (Compare Talus.) Tessera hospitalis was an oblong token of wood or earthenware, exchanged among families agreed to mutual hospitality. Many of these tokens have the bust of Jupiter Hospitalis impressed; tessera theatralis, a pass to the theatre; tessera militaris (Gr. σύνθημα), a tablet on which the watch-word or war-cry of the day was written; it was passed about the ranks before joining battle. Tesseræ frumentariæ or nummariæ, vouchers for bread or money distributed by the magistrates among the poor. (Cf. Tessela, Talus, Tabulæ.)
Testa, R. A sherd of tiles or pottery, and thence an earthenware vase.