Veroli Casket (The Rape of Europa)
The Veroli Casket is a casket, made in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the late tenth or early eleventh century. It is thought to have been made for a person close to the Imperial Court of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and may have been used to hold scent bottles or jewellery. The casket is made of carved ivory and bone panels showing scenes from classical mythology.
