Three-legged wooden table from the slaughter shed of old Burnfoot House, said to have been used while cutting up pigmeat

Tableman of bone with centre of interlaced work and circumference ornamented with double circles, from Forfar Loch, 11th to 12th century

Tablemen of bone ornamented with dots and circles, from Castle Donnan, Ross-shire, 11th to 12th century

Tablemen of bone ornamented with dots and circles, from Castle Donnan, Ross-shire, 11th to 12th century

Tablemen of bone ornamented with the figure of a rabbit, found in the ruins of the Bishop's Palace, Kirkwall, 11th to 12th century

Oak table with a slab of Swedish marble set in flush, under which is one small drawer, to a design by Robert Lorimer, Edinburgh

Circular table top made from pieces of Scottish serpentine in concentric bands, made at Portsoy for Matthew Forster Heddle, M.D., of St Andrews, 19th century

Model stationary steam engine, pre 1856, with a single vertical cylinder on a cast iron 'table', made by C.A. Deane of London, and restored by the Royal Scottish Museum Workshop in 1966

Mummy-label or tablet in painted wood, showing a woman wearing socks and jewellery, sitting on a stool giving birth on one side and on the other, a man, possibly a doctor, seated in a high-back chair holding an instrument (possibly shears), excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c100-140 AD

Table of wood, rectangular with square legs: Ancient Egyptian, New Kingdom, c. 1550 - 1069 BC

Offering table in Egyptian alabaster (travertine/calcite), carved from a single piece of stone, circular plate with an inwardly bevelled rim on a waisted cylindrical foot: Ancient Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.2494 - 2181 BC

Wodden mummy-label, inscribed with Greek characters "Sansnos, son of Pouoris and Smin" and Demotic "Sansnos son of Pouris": Ancient Egyptian, Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD100 - 300

Modern copy of a wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek characters "Apollonios the younger and Besa the elder, sons of their mother Thaminis; the one a priest, the other a merchant": Egypt, 19th Century, c. AD 1800-1900

Modern copy of a wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek characters "Pachoumis, son of Psenomesios and Senpachoumis, -”: Egypt, 19th Century, c. AD 1800-1900

Wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek "Petesis son of Hasies his mother (being) Tkauxis, from Bompae": Ancient Egyptian, Bompae, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c.AD 190-210

Wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek "Patmethis junior son of Petempetos sr. son of Horos son of Pelilis his mother (being) Terouteris": Ancient Egyptian, Psonis (Bassuna), Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 100-200