Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Trapezophorum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TRAPEZOPH'ORUM (τραπεζοφόρον). A leg or support for the slab of a table, or a sideboard. (Cic. Fam. vii. 23. Paul. Dig. 33. 10. 3.) These were frequently designed by good artists, and sold by themselves to private individuals, who could have a top fitted to them, which accounts for so many objects of this nature having been found in various excavations. They are sometimes composed of a single figure, amongst which the Sphynx frequently occurs; or of a bracket leg, composed from the head and legs of different birds and animals, as in the present example (Trapezophorum/1.1) from the device on a terra-cotta lamp, intended to be used for side-boards, and slabs placed against a wall, or for what we now call console tables.

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  Trapezophorum/1.1