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 272 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. imitation of the depression made by the body upon a mattress, and at either end the corner bulged out with a hollow in the middle, as would a pillow upon which the head has rested. In the front face of the stone bed is an ornament in the shape of a patera ; to judge from the thin- ness, as well as from the palm- ette design de- corating them, the feet carved on the anterior face of the sup- porting slabs would appear to be copied from a bronze couch. In many of these beds, when there was not time enough to chisel the stone, the painter's brush was used in the decoration. Ves- tiges of colour, red and green, are distinguish- able on another couch, a trans- verse section of which is given in Fig. 179. Thus the Greek key along the edge of the pillow was merely painted ; so were the stars decorating the lateral face