thumb|An image of the bisellium from a grave in Pompeii A bisellium (from Latin bi-, "two", and sella, "seat") was an ancient Roman chair of honor. Bestowed as a mark of distinction on individuals of merit in Roman municipalities, the right to use a bisellium in public places, such as the theatre or forum, was a highly prized privilege. Although it was a double-width seat, it was intended for one person. The bisellium, while similar in appearance to the sella curulis magisterial seat, did not have the symbolic meaning of power projected by the latter.
thumb|An image of the bisellium from a grave in Pompeii A bisellium (from Latin bi-, "two", and sella, "seat") was an ancient Roman chair of honor. Bestowed as a mark of distinction on individuals of merit in Roman municipalities, the right to use a bisellium in public places, such as the theatre or forum, was a highly prized privilege. Although it was a double-width seat, it was intended for one person. The bisellium, while similar in appearance to the sella curulis magisterial seat, did not have the symbolic meaning of power projected by the latter.
While numerous examples of (mainly bronze) furniture presumed to be biselliums have been recovered from Pompeii and Herculaneum (and made it into multiple museums), most of them later were found to be couches (klinēs) shortened during incorrect restorations.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).