Endnote 9 – Dining in Heaven

It seems that these images first appeared in imperial Roman times. See examples in Tran Tam Tinh, Catalogue des peintures romaines (Latium et Campanie) du musée du Louvre (Paris: Editions des musées nationaux, 1974), pp. 50–51, fig. 57; and Doro Levi, Antioch Mosaic Pavements (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1947), vol. 1, pl. 294–304, 66b. For a discussion of the Roman dining arrangement known as the stibadium, see Katherine Dunbabin, “Triclinium and Stibadium,” in Dining in a Classical Context, ed. William J. Slater (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1991), pp. 121–148.