found: Work cat.: Offering table at Munmyo temple, Sŏnggyun'gwan, Seoul, Korea, 1978, via University of Washington digital collections, International Collections, Feb. 9, 2021.
found: Art & architecture thesaurus online, Feb. 9, 2021(offering tables. SN Tables or other platforms in temples and churches upon which offerings to divinities are set. Not specific to geographic location, religious culture, or historical period: there are Ptolemaic, Shinto Buddhist, Vaishnav, Christian and Jewish offering tables. Examples are the blocks of sculpted stone or wood, intended to be placed in front of the false doors or statues of Egyptian tombs. These held food, drink, or other offerings to the dead and deities. For similar objects used specifically for liquid offerings, use "libation tables." BT tables (support furniture))
found: The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt, 2001, via Academia website, Feb. 9, 2021:v. 2, p. 572, etc. (offering tables; the bringing of offerings was the focal element of ancient Egyptian tomb and temple cults; thus, the offering table was one of the main features of cult monuments; as yet, Egyptologists have formed no satisfactory definition of offering tables; the term may designate any object on which offerings were placed)
found: Britannica online, Feb. 9, 2021(Mastaba, funerary structure: rectangular superstructure of ancient Egyptian tombs, built of mud brick or, later, stone, with sloping walls and a flat roof. A deep shaft descended to the underground burial chamber. ... Old Kingdom mastabas were used chiefly for nonroyal burials. In nonroyal tombs a chapel was provided that included a formal tablet or stela on which the deceased was shown seated at a table of offerings. ... Storage chambers were stocked with food and equipment, and walls were often decorated with scenes showing the deceased's expected daily activities. What had earlier been a niche on the side grew into a chapel with an offering table and a false door through which the spirit of the deceased could leave and enter the burial chamber.)
