1 Kings 7:27

Bases] movable supports or carriages for the lavers of 1 Kings 7:38. The description is very obscure, but it has been in part elucidated by a bronze stand of Mycenaean workmanship recently found in Cyprus. Each base consisted of a hollow cube (4 x 4 x 3 cubits), the sides of which had panels (borders) between raised edges (ledges). At the lower corners there were legs (the undersetters of 1 Kings 7:30; 1 Kings 7:34), which rested on large wheels. Above rose a pedestal (the base of 1 Kings 7:29; 1 Kings 7:31) with a capital (the chapiter of 1 Kings 7:32) which had a hollow (mouth) to receive the laver, which was further supported by stays (the undersetters under the laver of 1 Kings 7:30).