Pisa - Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

This museum holds a large collection of the works of art. Here are the originals, many of which are meanwhile replaced with replicas all around he Piazza dei Miracoli, as many of them crumbled and weathered. The museum is well worth a visit, but was closed (for a year?) in autumn 2014.

Following the information given, this ivory casket was produced in the Byzantine Empire within the 11th century. To the right a lion and a griffin chase a hare. To the left a very common motif: two birds drinking from a chalice.

Above them four little nudes dance, holding girdles of flowers (?). The left one blows a kind of instrument, the rights one seems to have a animal head (?).