Klinai

As Kline ( ancient Greek: κλίνη ) is referred to in archeology day bed with aufgebogenem head end.

Originally used only as a resting, the Kline in 7 / 6 is Century BC in Greece also used for food. They quickly became the most important piece of furniture for private homes ( here as an integral part of establishing itself ends at the same time Andron ) and public dining places such as the prytaneion.

Execution and use

As materials for the klinai served mainly wood and all the ancient common metals. Klinai stone are occupied in the dining rooms of ancient sanctuaries guest houses and gardens.

While klinai the archaic phase are executed only slightly increased at the head end, one developed in the Greek Classical several variants independent headboards. In the Hellenistic period, this development reached a climax with the Fulcrum Kline. The new curved head restraints ( fulcra ) are the most important piece of jewelry that Kline shape and often decorated with carvings from wood, bone or ivory and / or elaborate bronze reliefs. From the 1st century box klinai ( plutens ) were popular. The bed surface was thereby framed by a three-sided vertical or curved frame of 40 to 50 cm in height. In the Roman Empire period, the sequence of individual klinai ( stibadium ) was in large dining rooms being replaced by closed systems such as the omega shape.

The Roman antiquity distinguishes between the lectus cubicularis, the Kline to sleep and the lectus triclinaris, the Kline for food. Nevertheless, the time is also presumed a multi- function especially in modest households.