Tripod Table with Legs in the form of Lion Paws in the Louvre, June 2013

Numerous tombs have yielded up funerary models of furniture, buildings and everday objects destined to accompany the deceased in the afterlife. They testify to the existence of objects made of perishable materials (wood, cloth, leather) that have not survived.

Myrina: furniture model
Three-legged tables carved with lion’s paws
2nd–1st century BC
H. 8.5 cm

Tables are known to have been widely used in Greece. They were often low, to enable banqueters to eat reclining on a kline, as was the custom. Round tables with zoomorphic feet appeared in the 4th century BC and eventually replaced the traditional rectangular table.

French School of Athens excavations, 1894: Ly 1607 - M 151 - S 2945
French School of Athens excavations, 1883: Myr 406
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Ly 1607 - M 151 - S 2945, Myr 406

Text from: www.louvre.fr/en/moteur-de-recherche-oeuvres?tab=3#tabs