Couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : University of Chicago Press · leaf 42
CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FORMS has the same profile with the sides, as sarcophagi in couch form show.' Such sarcoiihagi or the representations of these couches on sarcophagi are less rude, as a rule, than the gravestones. No doubt the models, too, were often better couches. In Fig. 31, reproducing… … these late couches ever had any- t TO A lAn AHKAEl'T'HjI thing in the nature of upholstery. Fig. 18. — Relief on a Roman gravestone. — Island of Paros. In Plate XXIXu is reproduced a small terra-cotta found in Egypt. It muII be seen that there is a pattern of con- centric squares twice on the back…
Furniture, Ancient · Beds · Seating (Furniture)
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