Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 40
OD 35 floor-level between the legs, and the arms are lower than the Ijack. In fact, it seemsbetter adapted for use as a settee than as a couch for reclining, and it agrees in mostparticulars with the piece of furniture on which the emperor Augustus and thegoddess Roma are seated, as depicted on a… … FiG. 17.—Cover in couch form of a Roman sarcophagus.—Musco Torloiiia, Roij One of the stock subjects on Roman gravestones, whether found in England,along the Rhine, on the Greek islands, or in some other part of the old I^omandominions, was an adaptation of the time-honored funerary banquet…
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