dexioses, the
Scene at which two human figures are depicted in handshake, usually interpreted as a farewell to the dead. Such scenes are mainly found on funerary stelae.

proconsul, -lis
A quite high ranking official, vir spectabilis according to the rank of the senate, who was inequable only to the Domestikos of the Scholae and to the Magister Militum per Orientem. The proconsul usually served as a governor of the Imperial provinces (i.e. in Asia Minor the provinces of Asia and Cappadocia). The office was demoted from the 9th century onwards and the term was in use until the 12th century meaning a dignity.

tiara
A kind of headdress worn mainly by the kings in Persia, Medea, Armenia, Chaldea and Assyria. In Persia the kings wore it upright, whereas the high state officials wore it in a slant position. It is probably identical with cyrbasia and kidaris. A generic kind of tiara was the phrygian pilos.