thus suggests that in times of banquets, rather than lay out couches, the Iobakchoi of Athens ‘utilized the more rustic dining arrangement in which straw mats were spread on the floor’.74 The meeting hall could then easily be turned into to a ‘banquet hall’. The Baccheion at Athens illustrates how internal space in collegial buildings was ‘multipurpose’.75 Where there were no formal dining rooms, the main hall, the courtyard or porticos could be changed into dining space using moveable equipment.