In Couched in Death; Elizabeth P. Baughan offers the first comprehensive look at the earliest funeral couches in the ancient Mediterranean world. These sixth- and fifth-century BCE klinai from Asia Minor were inspired by specialty luxury furnishings developed in Archaic Greece for reclining at elite symposia. It was in Anatolia; howevermdash;in the dynastic cultures of Lydia and Phrygia and their neighborsmdash;that klinai first gained prominence not as banquet furniture but as burial receptacles. For tombs; wooden couches were replaced by more permanent media cut from bedrock; carved from marble or limestone; or even cast in bronze. The rich archaeological findings of funerary klinai throughout Asia Minor raise intriguing questions about the social and symbolic meanings of this burial furniture. Why did Anatolian elites want to bury their dead on replicas of Greek furniture? Do the klinai found in Anatolian tombs represent Persian influence after the conquest of Anatolia; as previous scholarship has suggested?
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