Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 40
nd were used for various occasions. The atrium contained double seats, single seats, and benches to hold more than one sitter ; chairs that either folded or were made in the form of folding chairs, such as could be carried about and placed in the chariot, curules. The woodcut shows the general… … sions. Seats were placed along the walls in the exedrce or saloons ; marble benches in most cases, sometimes wooden seats ; particularly also in the alcoves that were constructed in the porticoes of baths and public buildings, where lectures of philo- sophers were listened to. The Romans had…
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