Stibadium

A Stibadium (Latin " semi-circular dining sofa", gr: το στιβαδιον of η στιβας " paved road, with flowers or plants strewn bed, sofa ") was a semi-circular variant of the preparation of the sloping deck benches, the Lecti triclinares on in Roman dining rooms, which was the dinner party and the food was rich. This type of setup is mentioned in writing in the first century AD and was already common for dining outdoors. Inside the aristocratic townhouses and villas on the arrangement of n not before the late 2nd, early 3rd century BC is detectable. The traditional, rectangular array of dining couches in the form of the triclinium persisted, however, in the 4th and 5th centuries AD outweighed the Stibadium. There was a semi-circular bearing for four to six guests, which was also called sigma or accubitum. This arrangement was set up under a canopy in the open air, so that the term Stibadium also referred to an open, resting on columns, equipped with sun benches gazebo.

Pliny the Younger describes the Stibadium Hippodromus in his villa in Tuscis with these words:

In the 19th century were lavish, with figures, fables and chimeras decorated Stibadien as free seats for hours of leisure facilities for large gardens.

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