What is the name of the stone table in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

The Stone Table is the name of the ancient table in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

It stands on a hill near the White Witch’s territory and becomes the site of Aslan’s sacrifice. The table is tied to the Deep Magic, a foundational law governing Narnia. Aslan allows himself to be killed there in Edmund’s place, after Edmund’s betrayal has placed him under the Witch’s claim.

The scene is one of the novel’s most important turning points. After Aslan’s death, the Stone Table cracks, and he later returns to life through a deeper magic. Lewis’s Christian symbolism is especially visible in this episode, although the novel presents the events through fantasy narrative rather than theological exposition.

Readers sometimes call it an altar, but Lewis’s text names it the Stone Table. That exact term distinguishes the object from ordinary tables and from other sacred locations in Narnia.