Couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : University of Chicago Press · leaf 29
SIXTH CENTURY, SECOND HALF 23 near the top, and the characteristic incisions (real or depicted)' two-thirds of the way to the ground, with palmette ornaments above and below them. The long sides of the bed were formed by connecting-pieces, which were not very wide and were often ornamented by… … Fig 6. — Woman spinning, seated upon a ments as a bed-support in the next century, it couch. Fragment of a terra-cotta plaque. — Athens. seems reasonable to assume that it had never since its introduction gone out of use (see further on this point on p. 27). Another turned pattern is positively…
Furniture, Ancient · Beds · Seating (Furniture)
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