RT Article
T1 Rituali di corte: Il Triclinio dei XIX Letti del Grande Palazzo di Costantinopoli
JF Byzantinische Zeitschrift
VO 114
IS 1
SP 65
OP 110
A1 Baldini Lippolis, Isabella 1964-
LA Italian
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1757572961
AB The present contribution aims at reviewing the available data on the Triclinium of the Nineteen couches. It is divided into three parts: the first is intended to overview the information that Byzantine authors have handed down to us about this great banquet hall; the second aims at proposing reconstructive hypotheses about its dimensions and architecture, as well as to investigate the material aspects related to the organisation of the banquet in late antiquity; the third part deals with the ceremonial functions that were performed in it. Contrary to what is usually assumed, the Triclinium was probably not a huge hall with nine apses on each side, but a rectangular hall with a final apse and akkoubita arranged along the perimeter walls. In terms of ritual, the Triclinium must have continued to be in use throughout the early Middle Ages, with a particular revival in the 10th century.
DO 10.1515/bz-2021-9004