Couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : University of Chicago Press · leaf 73
67 MONUMENTAL EVIDENCE. SIXTH CENTURY Figs. 35 and 2)' of the earlier half of the sixth century show both beds with incised, rectangular legs, and those with turned legs furnished with a thick mattress ; thrown over this is a covering which hides the bed-frame and in part the legs.^ These draperies… … Fig. 35. — Achilles attended in illness by Thetis. Detail from a Corin- (Fig. 5), dating from about the mid- thian vase-painting. — Louvre. dle of the sixth century. In the Etruscan wall decoration of Eig. 8, from the latter half of the century, there is again a single thick mattress.^ All these…
Furniture, Ancient · Beds · Seating (Furniture)
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