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Diphros (Greek: Δίφρος) was an Ancient Greek stool without back and with four turned legs. It was easily transportable and so in common use. It was easily transportable and so in common use. Gods are shown sitting on diphroi on the Parthenon frieze; women used them in their home.
The Lloyds Bank coprolite is a large coprolite, or fossilised specimen of human faeces, recovered by the York Archaeological Trust while excavating the Viking settlement of Jórvík (present-day York) in northern England.
The origins of stools are obscure, but they are known to be one of the earliest forms of wooden furniture. [1] [need quotation to verify] The ancient Egyptians used stools as seats, and later as footstools. [2] The diphros was a four-leg stool in Ancient Greece, produced in both fixed and folding versions.
It was known to have been used in Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece. The Christian faldstool is a type of X-chair. ... Rococo stool. Paris, France, late 1730s.
Stool with woven seat, 1991–1450 BC, wood and reed, height: 13 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lattice stool was the most popular type of stool in ancient Egypt.It is rectangular in form with a combination of features.
There in the lands of ancient Egypt is the first evidence for stools, beds, and tables (such as from the tombs similar to Tutankhamun's). Recovered Ancient Egyptian furniture includes a third millennium BC bed discovered in the Tarkhan Tomb, a c. 2550 BC gilded set from the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I , and a c. 1550 BC stool from Thebes.
Biliary-type pain in the absence of any sign of biliary or pancreatic alteration was the so-called Type III biliary SOD. The hypothesis that this pain could be linked to SOD has been studied in a large trial published in JAMA (2014) [4] where patients were randomized to sphincterotomy or sham surgery. Contrary to expectations, patients who were ...
A picture of the Ghanaian traditional stool also known as Asesedwa. The traditional Ghanaian stool (or asesedwa in the Asante Twi language) is a carved wooden stool common in sub-Saharan West Africa, and especially common in Ghana. [1] Among the Akan it is used as a household object, it is used in rites of passage, and is considered sacred. [2]