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A Bronze Kline From Lydia, Elizabeth P. Baughan, İlknur Özgen

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

In 1982, the J. Paul Getty Museum purchased an ancient kline made mostly of bronze (pl. 9, I)¹. It replicates, at full scale, a wooden couch with lathe-turned legs, comparable to those attested in the Greek world in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E². As one of only four known bronze beds or couches that pre-date the Hellenistic period³, it is an important artifact that can contribute much to our understanding of ancient furniture and metallurgy, and adhering fragments and pseudomorphs of linen cloth add to the corpus of preserved ancient textiles. …