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VVVITA / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

A TASTE OF ROME. Triclinium-style dining was common in elite contexts throughout Roman Judea. Local rulers, governors, and other officials sought to emulate the cultural prestige of the Roman Empire, incorporating such practices into their public and private lives. The heavily restored dining room shown here, which is on one of the terraces of King Herod’s northern palace at Masada, likely would have been furnished in the manner of a triclinium, with a U-shaped arrangement of low tables and couches where guests could recline as they ate.