Wine also was placed upon the table of shew-bread in bowls, some larger, riirp, and some smaller, MISS; also in vessels that were covered, nilbp, and in cups, ni'i53'a, which were probably employed in pouring in and taking out the wine from the other vessels, or in making libations. Gesenius calls them " paterae libato- ria ;" and they appear in the A. V. as " spoons." Some of them were perhaps for incense (ri3l3b "13^712, Mish- na, Fr)OTCf,v,l). SeegenerallvExod.xxv,29,30; xxxvii, 10-16; xl, 4, 24; Lev. xxiv, 5-9; Numb, iv, 7.
The fate of the original table of shew-bread is un- known. It was probabh^ transferred by David (if it then still existed) to his temporary sanctuary on Jit. Zion, and thence by Solomon to his sumptuous Temple. With the other articles of sacred furniture, it was car- ried away by the Babylonians, and possibly in like man- ner restored after the Captivity. Antiochus Epiphanes despoiled the second Temple of this as well as of its other treasures (1 Mace, i, 23), and hence on the Mac- cabsean restoration a new one was made (iv, 49). Ac- cording to Josephus, it was reconstructed in a most elaborate and costly manner at the expense of Ptolemy Philadelphus {Ant. xii, 2, 9, where the descri|)tion is very detailed). The same historian again describes more briefly the Herodian shew-bread table, which was carried away by the Romans ( War, vii, 5, 5), and was deposited by Vespasian in his newly erected Temple of Peace at Rome {ibid, vii, 5, 7), where it survived the burning of that building under Commodus (Herodian, i, 14), and in the middle of the 5th century was taken by the Vandals under Genseric to Africa (Cedren. Cum- pend. i, 346). It is said to have been rescued by Beli- sarius (A.D. 520), and sent to Constantinople, whence it was finally remitted to Jerusalem (Procopius, !'(/?«/«/. xi, 9). The only authentic representation of this in-
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rdint; to Kiepert : 2. Accordiug to Paine; 3. According to Soltau ; 4. According to NeumanD ; 5. According to Kiggenbach.
terestiiii; article extant is that upon the arch of Titus at Rome [see Shew-brkad], which was carefully delin- eated and described by Heland {De Spoliis Templi [Fr. ad Rh. 1716], c. 6-9) when it seems to have been in a better state of preservation than at present. See, gen- erally, Schlichter, De Mensa Fucierum (Hal. 1738; also in Ugolino, Thesaur. x) ; Witsius, Miscell. Sacr. i, 336; Carpzov, Appar. Crit. p. 278 ; Bithr, Syvibol. d. mos. Cul- tus, i, 435 ; Friederich, SymhoL d. mos. Stiftshiilte, p. 170 : Keil, Tempel Sal. p. 109 ; Paine, The Tubermicle (aid the Temple (Bost. 1861), p. 11; Neumann, Die Stiftshiilte, etc. (Leips. 1861), p. 135; Rigs;enbach, Die mns. StiJ'ts- hiitte (Basel, 1867), p. 37; Sollau, Vessels of the Tabeiiia- cfe (Lond. 1873), p. 17-28. See Tabernacle; Temi-lk.
TABLE OF Succession. A list of the successors of St. Peter made by Eusebius. He acknowledged that there was great difficulty in procuring information, and his account appears to have been compiled chiefly from reports or traditions. Of his fidelity he has given proof, by leaving vacancies in his conjectural list, when he had no light to guide him. These vacancies were sul)se- quently filled up by Nicephorus,Callistus, and Simon the Metaphrast (see Elliott, iJelineation of Romauistn, p. 498). See Sicc'ESsioN.
Table-tomb, a tomb shaped like a table or altar, erected over a grave or place of interment. See Tomb. Table-turning. See Spiritualis:*!.
Tablet is the inaccurate rendering in the A. V. of two Heb. words designating some kind of female orna- ment: 1. TTSHS, himaz (so called, according to Gesen., from the f/lubular form ; but, according to Flirst, a locket
or clasp; Sept. i^iiKoKia Kal inpi^i-t.ia,\i\\g. dextriiliii, in Exod. xxxv, 22; IpirXoKiov, muro'nnUe, in Numb, xxxi, 50), probably drops hung like beads in a string around the neck or arm, as described by ancient au- thors on Arabia (Diod. Sic. iii, 44, 50; Strabo, xvi, 277). 2. 11"Sin ""ria, bottey' hau-ne'phesh, houses of the soul (Isa. lii, 20, Sept. laKTvXioi, V^ulg. olfwtoriohi), i. c. per- fume-bottles of essences or smelling-salts kept in lockets suspended about the person. See Orna.ment.
TABLET, Memokial. A tablet placed on the floor of a church or cloister, inscribed with a legend in mem- ory of some person deceased.
TABLET, Mural. A tablet on Avhich an inscription has been |ilaced, affixed to the wall of a church or cloister,
Ta'bor (Heb. Tabor' , "lian, a mound), the name of three spots in Palestine (in the treatment of which we chiefly de|)end upon the articles in Smith's Diet, of the Bible). See also Aznoth-Tabor ; Chisloth-Tabok.
1. Mount Tabor (Sept. FaiB/Siop [v. r. Ta0w.&], opoQ Oal3top, OafSwp, but to IralSi'ptoi' in Jer. and Hosea, and in Josephus [.-1 nt. v, 5, 3 ; War, iv, 1,1, etc.], who has also 'Arapiivpinv, as in Poly bins, v, 70, 6 ; Vulg. Thabor), a mountain ("IH, .ludg. iv, 6, 12, 14, elsewhere without this epithet, Josh, xix, 22, Judg. viii, 18; Psa. Ixxxix, 12; .ler. xlvi, 18, Hos, v, 1), one of the most interesting and remarkable of tlie single mountains in Palestine. It was a Rabbinic saying (and shows the .Jewish estimate of the attractions of the locality) that the Temple ought of right to have been built here, but was required by an express revelation to be erected on Mount Moriah.