Tiara, Gr. (τιάρα). A hat with a tall high crown; the characteristic head-dress of the north-western Asiatics; especially the Armenians, Parthians, Medes, and Persians. Tiara recta or cidaris was an upright tiara, the regal head-dress of Persia. Tiara Phrygia was a synonym for Mitra. Fig. [653] represents the head-dress and costume of a Persian soldier.
Fig. 653. Persian soldier wearing the tiara.
Tiara, Chr. The Pope’s triple crown, emblematic of his authority in the three kingdoms of heaven, earth, and the lower world. (See Fig. [653].)
Tibia, R. (Greek, aulos). A pipe or flute of reed, bone, ivory, horn, or metal, perforated with holes for the notes like a flute; the principal varieties were:—the monaulos or single pipe, including the bagpipe (utricolarius); the diaulos, or double pipe, bound round the cheeks with a bandage called by the Romans capistrum, and in Greek phorbeia; and the syrinx or Pandæan pipe, of three to nine tubes.
Tibia Curva, R. A kind of flute curved at its broadest end.
Tibia Dextra, R. The right-hand pipe of the diaulos, usually constructed of the upper and thinner part of a reed.
Tibia Gingrina, R. A flute made of a long thin tube of reed with a mouth-hole at the side of one end.
Tibia Ligula, R. A flute resembling the modern flageolet.
Tibia Longa, R. A flute used especially in religious worship.