An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology / Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations.

by John W. Mollett

Tumulus Honorarius. (See Cenotaphium.)

Tunbridge Ware. Inlaid-work of variously-coloured woods made at Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

Fig. 670. Tunica muliebris, talaris.

Tunica, Gr. and R. A tunic; the principal garment worn both by men and women among the Greeks and Romans. It was a kind of woollen shirt confined round the neck and the waist; it came down as far as the knee; it had short sleeves which only covered the upper part of the arm. Tunics were classed as follows: the exomis, the epomis, the chiton, the manicata or manuleata, the talaris, the muliebris, the interior or intima, the recta, the angusticlavia, the laticlavia, the patagiata, the palmata, the asema, and the picta. (Bosc.) (Fig. [670].)

Tunicatus, Gr. and R. Wearing a tunic.

Tunicle, Chr. (Lat. subtile). The vestment of the sub-deacon; it resembled the dalmatic, but had tight sleeves.

Turbo, R. (Gr. βέμβιξ). A child’s whipping-top; the whorl of a spindle.

Turibulum. (See Thurible.)

Turicremus. (See Thuricremus.)