Creighton University

This platter has three troughs presenting animal scenes.  Are they meant to be fables?  The three scenes have perhaps peacocks attacking a crow; wolves attacking a bull; and a wolf lying in wait for sheep.  The first fits well with BF.  The third may well show departing dogs in the upper left and suggest the fable in which  the wolves convinced the sheep that they did not need the dogs.  I am unsure of the animal in the second trough.  Might it be one of several bulls that has been pulled away from the others?  In the center sits a dramatic “Aisopos” in Greek.  For what might this platter have been used?