Tus or Thus, R. Frankincense, imported from Arabia and used in great quantities by the ancients either for religious ceremonies or to perfume their apartments.
Tuscan Order of Architecture. The simplest of the five Orders of classical architecture, having no ornament whatever; unknown to the Greeks; a variety of Roman Doric (q.v.). The column is about seven diameters high, including the base and capital. The base is half a diameter in height; the capital is of equal height, having a square abacus, with a small projecting fillet on the upper edge—under the abacus is an ovolo and a fillet with neck below; the shaft is never fluted; the entablature is quite plain, having neither mutules nor modillions; the frieze also is quite plain.
Tusses or Toothing-stones, in building, are projecting stones for joining other buildings upon.
Tutulatus, R. Having the hair arranged in the form of a cone, or wearing the sacerdotal cap called tutulus, and thence a priest who usually wore the Tutulus (q.v.).
Tutulus or Apex, R. (1) A flamen’s cap; it was conical and almost pointed. (2) A mode of arranging the hair on the crown of the head in the shape of a pyramid or cone. An example is seen in the Medicean Venus.
Twill. A kind of ribbed cloth.
Tympanium, R. (τυμπάνιον). A pearl shaped like a kettle-drum, namely, with one surface flat and the other round.
Fig. 671. Tympanum. Romano-Byzantine.
Tympanum, R. (τύμπανον). (1) A tambourine, like that of modern times: a piece of stiff parchment stretched over a hoop with bells. (2) A drum-shaped wheel; tympanum dentatum, a cogged wheel. (3) In architecture, the flat surface, whether triangular or round, marked out by the mouldings of a pediment. Fig. [671] shows a tympanum of the Romano-Byzantine period. (For Triangular Pediment, see Fig. [26].)