An Excerpt from Homer's Odyssey 

 A maid servant then brought them water in a beautiful
golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for them to
wash their hands, and she drew a clean table beside them.

Then the suitors came in and took their places on the benches and seats.
 


and they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them.
An upper servant brought them bread, and offered them

many good things of what there was in the house, the
carver fetched them plates of all manner of meats and set
cups of gold by their side, and a man-servant brought
 them wine and poured it out for them.