Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 41
arently solid; the back often FuRTWAXGLER, Die anliken Cemmen, PlateLVl. The terra-cotta, of course, necessarily showsthe spaces between the rails solid, but unless weare to suppose these spaces in the structure repro-duced to have been paneled up at the back, the form must have been that suggested… … has the same profile with the sides, as sarcophagi in couch form show. Suchsarcophagi or the representations of these couches on sarcopliagi are less rude, asa rule, than the gravestones. Xo doubt the models, too, were often better couches.In Fig. 31, reproducing the front of a sarcophagus from…
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