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Ancient Greek furniture was typically constructed out of wood, though it might also be made of stone or metal, such as bronze, iron, gold, and silver. Little wood survives from ancient Greece, though varieties mentioned in texts concerning Greece and Rome include maple, oak, beech, yew, and willow. [ 56]
Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas ), eating ( tables ), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks ). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks ...
S. Seated Hermes. Silver Siege Rhyton. Silver-gilt bowl (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Sphyrelaton.
Ancient Greek crafts (or the craftsmanship in Ancient Greece) was an important but largely undervalued, economic activity. It involved all activities of manufacturing transformation of raw materials, agricultural or not, both in the framework of the oikos and in workshops of size that gathered several tens of workers.
Metal production in the ancient Middle East. The metals of antiquity are the seven metals which humans had identified and found use for in prehistoric times in Africa, Europe and throughout Asia: [ 1] gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury . Zinc, arsenic, and antimony were also known during antiquity, but they were not recognised ...
Klinē. Votive relief showing a funerary banquet, 5th century BC. The dead man is shown as a heroized man lying on a klinē. On display in Room 19–20 of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Klinai ( Greek; sg.: klinē ), [1] known in Latin as lectus triclinaris, [2] were a type of ancient furniture used by the ancient Greeks in their ...
Klismoi are familiar from depictions of ancient furniture on painted pottery and in bas-reliefs from the mid-fifth century BCE onwards. In epic, klismos signifies an armchair, but no specific description is given of its form; in Iliad xxiv, after Priam's appeal, Achilles rises from his thronos, raises the elder man to his feet, goes out to prepare Hector's body for decent funeral and returns ...
Loom. A treadle-driven Hattersley & Sons Domestic Loom, built under licence in 1893, in Keighley, Yorkshire. This loom has a flying shuttle and automatically rolls up the woven cloth; it is not just controlled but powered by the pedals. A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry.