\paperw6690 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b TABLINUM \b0 - The Latin name for the room in ancient houses where the family heirlooms were kept and which was also used
to receive guests. It was entered from the atrium and illuminated from the peristyle. In Roman architecture, the tablinum was the room where meals were prepared and eaten.\par
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\b TELAMON \b0 - A male figure used as a support, instead of a column
or pillar. It is also called an atlas.\par
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\b TEPIDARIUM\b0 - A moderately heated room, placed at the center of Roman baths, that provided a gradual transition between the calidarium and the frigidarium. It contained tubs and pools for warm baths
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\b TRAVERTINE \b0 - A whitish, pale yellow, or pink rock composed essentially of calcite or aragonite, it has a structure of concretionary bands, full of tiny holes. Used as a material for construction, paving, and facing, it is common in Tu
scany, Lazio, Le Marche, and Umbria.\par
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\b TRIGLYPH\b0 - Element of quadrangular shape, with three vertical grooves (glyphe is the Greek for carving), that alternates with metopes in a Doric frieze. It is supposed that the triglyph derived from
the simple triple groove that was used to decorate the ends of beams protruding from the wall above the colonnade.\par
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\b TUFA \b0 - Rock produced by cementation of the dust that falls after an explosive volcanic eruption, forming strata mixed wit
h lava flows. Gray, yellowish, greenish, or brown in color, it has been used in the preparation of special cements and as a construction material ever since antiquity, thanks to the ease with which it can be worked.\par
