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Rome or David Casket, Byzantine, 898 or 900AD
David receiving the show bread and Goliath’s armour from Abimelech

Photo by emilio

An ivory casket in the Palazzo Venezia, Rome.
The casket had been attributed to Armenia based on the strangeness of the lettering of part of the inscription. Later this was found to be due to repair of the casket, probably in the 17th century.

"Weitzmann was the first to recognize that, beyond much of the epigraphy, a seventeenth-century hand was responsible for the entire spandrel depicting David receiving the show bread and Goliath's armor from Abimelech (I Kings 21:3-9) (Fig. 4)"
p81, A Cutler and N Oikonomides, An Imperial Byzantine Casket and Its fate at a Humanist's Hands, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Mar., 1988)