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Historical Archive: Rosette Casket wood, ivory, and bone, 11.4 × 38 × 16.2 cm (4.5 x 15 x 6.4 inches) Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c. from collection Fraternita dei Laici di Arezzo Arezzo, Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna 15033 oblique, long side with nudes oblique, long side with Hercules lid: riding soldiers, one with defeated figure long side: nude figures, soldiers short side: lion attacking steer, attacked by gryphon long side: sorrowing Hercules; Hercules with Nemean lion long side: soldier; sorrowing Hercules short side: Hercules with Nemean lion and Iolaus