Leyre Casket

[1]: 214–15 In the description of Henry Luttikhuizen, This precious container is covered with elaborate ornament and includes twenty-one courtly scenes in octagonal lobed medallions.

[2] The most prominent inscription on the casket is an Arabic text in foliated Kufic script with bevelled staves running around the edge of the lid.

[This is part of it] from that which was ordered to be made under the supervision of the chief page Zuhayr ibn Muhammad al-ʿAmirī, his servant in the year three hundred and ninety-five.

[1]: 216  At Leyre the casket was repurposed as a reliquary to hold the remains of Saints Nunilo and Alodia, believed to have been executed as apostates during persecutions of Christians by ʿAbd al-Raḥman II, emir of Cordoba, on the mid-ninth century.

[1]: 215  Inside the casket, a silk textile fragment was discovered, showing 'a repeating pattern of large-bodied peacocks'; it is thought that this once wrapped the saints' bones.