A Christian Casket

Ivory Plaque shows Pilate Washing His Hands, Christ Bearing the Cross, and Peter Denying Christ— It was made in  Rome, c. 420–30, from the “Maskell ivories.” the artist is unknown. The casket is in The British Art Museum, London.

There are 3 other panels of sculpture surrounding the casket.
 

This casket with 4 individual panels of ivory sculpture is in the British Museum  and is an example of how the Roman Christian sculptors followed the Greco-Roman manner but applied the beauty to Christian texts:

“When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood,’ he said. ‘It is your responsibility!’” Matthew 27:24

”Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away. Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.”John 19:16-18