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Historical Archive: Veroli Casket rosette casket, Constantinople, mid to late tenth century ivory and bone with traces of polychrome and gilding, over wood height 11.5 cm, length 40.3 cm, width 15.5-16 cm (4.5 x 15.9 x 6.1-6.3 inches) The lid is not hinged, but slides. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 216-1865 lid and front from above/front lid and front from front/above lid and front from front/above, oblique from right front front left front right front, lid, and right end right end, oblique view; metal lock fittings possibly original right end back back and left end left end left end, lid, and front interior with person for scale lid figural panel on lid, center part figural panel on lid: rape of Europa with youths throwing stones figural panel on lid: erotes; Herakles(?) playing lyre; centaurs playing flute and pan pipes figural panel on lid: maenads dancing lid, bone strips with heads and rosettes figural panel on front left figural panel on front left: eros with mask, eros pulling thorn, woman, Kastor or Hippolytos figural panel on front left: eros with wreath; man (Pollux?) leading winged horse to spring (Bellerophon and Pegasus?) figural panel on front left: Demeter, Persephone, Hekate, or Peirene (personification of the spring) with pedestal figural panel on front right figural panel on front right: Asklepios; Achilles with offering figural panel on front right: sacrifice of Iphegenia: Agamemnon, Iphegenia, Odysseus figural panel on front right: Hygeia with serpent and containers figural panel on back left: Dionysiac procession? figural panel on back left: female panther kissed and suckled by erotes figural panel on back left: dog figural panel on back left: eros on neck of stag figural panel on back left: eros riding or fighting eagle figural panel on back right figural panel on back right: Phaedra and Hippolytos or Aphrodite (Venus) and Ares (Mars) figural panel on back right: eros in pose of Europa, with goading youth figural panel on back right: horse tethered and fellated figural panel on back right: basket with eros (Boy in the Basket) back right corner: bone strips with polychrome and gilding, ivory panel bone rosette strip, back right corner figural panel on right end: eros/Triton on altar or column with serpent; eros riding a hippocamp (sea horse) figural panel on left end: Dionysus (Bacchus) in a cart drawn by panthers (lions?)