Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 28
thehead.-* (C/. Figs. 5, 7, and 8.) In Etruria, the bed with rectangular, incised legs aj^pears in the form of Etrlarge terra-cotta sarcophagi. An example in the Museo di Papa Giulio, Rome, isshown in Fig. 43.- These are lower for their length than Attic beds of this class.Another Etruscan… … Fic.couch. Cj.—Woman spinning, seated uijon aFragment of a terra-cotta placiue.— The question as to the actual cutting out ofthe legs in cases such as the bed shown in Fig. 4will be discussed later, p. 45, n. i. ^ Among the few exceptions are very low befls ofthis type on a black-figured cyli.x in…
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