Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tutulus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TUT'ULUS. A particular style of head-dress, originally confined to the Flaminica, or wife of the Flamen Dialis (Festus, s. v.), but subsequently adopted by other females (Inscript. ap. Grut. 579. 5.) It was formed by piling up the hair with the aid of a purple riban, to a considerable height on the top of the head, so as to have the appearance of a goal (meta, Varro, L. L. vii. 44. Festus, s. v.), as in the illustration (Tutulus/1.1), from a painting of Herculaneum. This fashion is also alluded to in the expressions, suggestum comae (Stat. Sylv. i. 2. 114.); and tot compagibus altum Aedificat caput (Juv. vi. 502.).

2. A high cap, made of wool, in the form of a cone or goal (meta, Serv. ad Virg. Aen. ii. 683.), but without the olive point (apex) at the top, which was worn by some orders of the priesthood (Servius, l. c.); like the annexed example (Tutulus/1.2), from a bronze medal, representing the Genius of Augustus performing sacrifice.

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