The body is flat, not curved; the legs are commonly plain, and fastened to each other by a cross-bar, sometimes terminating in the favorite pine-shaped ornament.

One end only is raised, and this usually curves inward nearly in a semicircle.

[PLATE LXXXV., Fig.

3.] The couches are decidedly lower than the Egyptian; and do not, like them, require a stool or steps in order to ascend them.
Stools, however, are used with the chairs or thrones of which mention was made above--lofty seats, where such a support for the sitter's feet was imperatively required.

[PLATE LXXXV..