Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 25
. 155-57) is in therealm of hypothesis when he attempts a concrete,though sketchy, picture of the S-nii.a in the words ;Sie bestanden wohl aus einem Complex vonholzernen Brettern, welche der Lange nach iiberzwei oder mehrere Lmtersatze oder Tragbockegelegt wurden, und mit diesen gleichsam… … In the Roman period turned legs are the rule. At first the couches were a mereframework of legs bearing a flat surface upon which bedding was piled. Then theupper part gradually assumed importance; low headboards and often also foot-boards appeared; these became higher in Roman times, and a back…
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