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Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)

Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 110

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cm. to the top of one of the lower prongs (the higher prongs arebroken off above) and 3.7 cm. in diameter at thelower end. Within are remains of wood, a part ofthe furniture leg to which it was once attached;this is proof that the shoe was not at the end of ametal rod such as perhaps always formed… … 1-IG 5r. — I.r-.riMuseum, Hanover. frequent on monuments down to a late Romanperiod. Now, these stools are the only pieces offurniture having the legs ending below in a curvewhich the bronzes would At; the stools vary amongthemselves in proportions, to judge by the monu-ments, some being tall…

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