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| Keywords: Byzantine - Box with Scenes from the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Story of Joseph - Walters 71295 - Top.jpg The front of this casket depicts the Fall of Adam and the Temptation of Eve flanking the Sorrowing Adam below the lockplate A fourth plaque on the back of the casket portrays Adam hiding behind a tree and covering his nudity The large rectangular plaque set into the casket's lid shows the Old Testament patriarch Jacob ordering his son Joseph to follow his brothers and the Angel of the Lord guiding his way These Old Testament images must have been intened as moral examples for the box's owner It was probably used in a private home for the safekeeping of valuables In Constantinople where urban life especially in the middle Byzantine period 843-1204 surpassed that of any western center luxury items such as boxes made of ivory and bone were in great demand and produced serially A number of details point toward such a system of manufacture many extant boxes have similar dimensions and often the borders were cut to size and used as fillers The plaque on the lid of this box with biblical scenes is smaller than the allotted space a sign that it was not made to measure Likewise the presence of peg holes prepared but not drilled through like those in the upper left border indicates that the plaque was part of a stockpile and not custom made These techniques allowed workshops to produce more affordable wares thus meeting the needs of a larger market The wealthier patrons might order a custom-made box covered in ivory plaques consumers of more modest means could purchase a box decorated with the plaques and strips of carved bone that the workshop kept in stock century 10 11 Medieval bone ivory wood cm 18 7 27 8 17 9 accession number 71 295 7841 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 Translation Jacob Sending Joseph out to His Brothers Angel of the Lord The Transgression of Adam The Snake Speaking to Eve Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey <gallery> File Byzantine - Box with Scenes from the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Story of Joseph - Walters 71295 - Back jpg File Byzantine_-_Box_with_Scenes_from_the_Fall_of_Adam_and_Eve_and_the_Story_of_Joseph_-_Walters_71295_-_Interior_Top jpg File Byzantine_-_Box_with_Scenes_from_the_Fall_of_Adam_and_Eve_and_the_Story_of_Joseph_-_Walters_71295_-_Left jpg File Byzantine - Box with Scenes from the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Story of Joseph - Walters 71295 - Right jpg File Byzantine - Box with Scenes from the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Story of Joseph - Walters 71295 - Three Quarter jpg File Byzantine - Box with Scenes from the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Story of Joseph - Walters 71295 jpg </gallery> Walters Art Museum license Byzantine ivory in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
