klinai

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  6. furnishings (works)
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  9. [furniture by form or function]
  10. [sleeping and reclining furniture]
  11. couches (reclining furniture)
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Scope note
Couches having raised head ends and various distinctive styles of legs, used in ancient Greece chiefly for sleeping and dining but also for laying out the dead during ritual mourning and in their tombs. The earliest depictions are in funerary scenes on Geometric vases.
klinai
Accepted term: 18-Nov-2024