Ivory casket lid, 965 to 970 AD, (1881). Etching of the carved lid of a box, made in Al-Andalus (Andalucia, Spain), possibly at Madinat al-Zahra, Córdoba, in the mid 10th century. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]

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