As the objects themselves have in all cases ceased to exist, leaving behind them only a few fragments, it is necessary to have recourse to the bas-reliefs for such notices as may be thence derived of their construction and character.

In these representations the most ordinary form of table is one in which the principal of our camp-stools seems to be adopted, the legs crossing each other as in the illustrations [PLATE LXXXIV.].

only two legs are represented, but we must undoubtedly regard these two as concealing two others of the same kind at the opposite end of the table.

The legs ordinarily terminate in the feet of animals, sometimes of bulls, but more commonly of horses.

Sometimes between the two legs we see a species of central pillar, which, however, is not traceable below the point where the legs cross one another.