Foreword / Gerhard Wolf -- Preface / F. Dell'Acqua, A. Cutler, H. L Kessler, A. Shalem, G. Wolf -- The fabric, facture, and enduring enigma of the Salerno ivories / Anthony Cutler -- The tusk: origins of the raw material for the Salerno ivories / Sarah M. Guerin -- La policromia superstite degli avori di Salerno / Pietro Baraldi, Paolo Bensi, Andrea Rossi, and Palolo Zannini -- The Grado Chair: a review of the historical and documentary sources / Francesca Tasso -- Angelo Maria Bandini (1726-1803) e gli avori di 'Grado' e 'Salerno' / Antonio Milone -- Gli avori del gruppo di 'Amalfi/Salerno'. Considerazioni sui presupposti, sulla cronologia e la localizzazione / Fabrizio Crivello -- Aspetti conservativi del cofanetto eburneo di Farfa / GIovanni Guardia -- Tavolette quadrate bislonghe. Note critiche sugli avori 'salernitani' del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna / Gabriella Bernardi e Giovanni Gasbarri -- On diversity in southern Italy / Antony Eastmond -- Architectural illusions and architectural representations: buildings and space in the Salerno ivories / Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing -- "Veteris testamenti typos evangelicae veritati profecisse monstravimus": Realia and Spiritualia on the Salerno ivories / Herbet L. Kessler -- Botanical exegesis in God's creation: he polyvalent meaning of plants on the Salerno ivories / Maria Evangelatou -- When art depicts ritual: the Salerno plaque with the women at the tomb / Natalia B. Teteriatnikov -- Miracles and Matthew: potential contexts for the Salerno ivories / Jill Caskey -- A scenario for the Salerno ivories: the liturgical furnishings of the Salerno Cathedral / Ruggero Longo and Elisabetta Scirocco -- The hidden sides of the Salerno ivories. Hypotheses about the original object, program, and cultural milieu / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- Epilogue: the Salerno riddle and some reflections on artifacts in the post-semiotic age / Avinoam Shalem