Casket

Casket ( loan word from Latin " scatula ", see also box) is a smaller, often handcrafted elaborately designed container for the storage of more or less valuable items (money, jewelry and the like). A casket can be made of wood, leather, stone ( gem ) or metal to be worked and served in the Middle Ages often as Minne gift.

In a figurative sense box can also refer to the (private ) budget of a regent.

Box made ​​of amber