Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 42
ot lack-ing, then, for couches of comfortable length forlying flat upon. Greek art never hesitated to take libertieswith the relative sizes of people, animals, andinanimate objects when the general decorativefilling of spaces could be better attained thereby.Hence it should not surprise us in… … [.—RL-lii-f (in a Ruman cippus. In the first place, it does not seem to me prob-able that the Romans would have built such couchesof masonn.-; they would rather have car\ed themout of whole blocks of marble, as they did sarcoph-agi. But even if couches of masonry existed, theywere then in design…
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