LOT 128 Roman Banqueteer's Couch with Lion's Skin
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1st century BC. A Roman or Ptolemaic bronze model of a lectus for a dining room (triclinium), with well detailed pillow and a lion-skin used as blanket (??????????), the lower part of the bed decorated by rhomboid patterns according to the Eastern Hellenic custom. 231 grams, 10.5cm (4"). Property of a private collector; acquired before 1975. The lectus tricliniaris was lower than a sleeping bed (lectus cubicularis), in most cases it had a pluteus (headboard), as may be seen from Suet. Cal. 26; Propert. iv. (or v.) 8, 68; at one end there was a raised ledge on which a cushion was placed, and on this the left arm rested; among the Romans it held three persons; among the Greeks, two; like the bed, it had a mattress (torus), over which fine coverlets tyriae vestes, and animal skins were thrown.
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