Klinē

 ( Couches ) 

Klinai (Ancient Greek; : klinē),

known in Latin as lectus triclinaris,

Marjorie Susan Venit (2025). 9781107048089, Cambridge University Press. . ISBN 9781107048089

were a type of ancient furniture used by the Ancient Greece in their Symposium and by the Ancient Rome in their somewhat different convivia.

Oswyn Murray (2025). 9780199381135, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780199381135

In the later part of the Hellenistic period, an arrangement of three klinai positioned in a 'U' shape developed, which together formed the triclinium.

Each kline of a triclinium offered room for three diners. The seating arrangement of the reclining dinner guests was given a strict significance.

A two- klinai arrangement created a biclinium, with the two couches either at a right angle

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or facing each other.

Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti (1987). 9780884021629, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington, DC), Dumbarton Oaks. . ISBN 9780884021629

Biclinium (: biclinia) may also mean a dining couch for two persons in ancient Rome.

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