Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve

Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve

1000–1100s · Byzantium, Constantinople, Byzantine period

ivory, wood

And when the woman saw, that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she tooke of the fruit thereof, and did eate, and gaue also vnto her husband with her, and hee did eate.
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