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Historical Archive: Milan Sant'Ambrogio Treasury, Crypt The treasury and memorials are housed in the former chapter house (Capitolino). Ambrosian relics are located in the crypt. space of former chapter house inlays from basilica apse, marble/glass, 4th c. inlay: lamb inlay: lamb, slightly oblique from left stucco capitals, 8th c. reliquary, bone/glass paste on wood core, prob. 13th c. reliquary, oblique from front corner and above reliquary, oblique from front and corner reliquary, fragmentary glass figures on front reliquary, oblique from back corner and above reliquary, back side with hinges reliquary, glass figures on back memorial of Abbot Guglielmo Cotta (reg. 1235-1267), oblique memorial of Abbot Guglielmo Cotta, frontal memorial: SS. Gervasius, Ambrose, Protasius; epitaph of Guglielmo Cotta, with surround memorial: saints and epitaph memorial: epitaph memorial, lower part memorial, lower part: Guglielmo Cotta presented to the Virgin and Child by SS. Benedict and Ambrose memorial, lower part, with more surround including area lacking paint memorial: sarcophagus with inscription on lid sarcophagus lid (reused Roman slab): Guglielmo Cotta in pontifical robes, insignia figure on sarcophagus lid, upper part at a less extreme angle 17th-c. fresco: King Bernard of Italy (reg. 810-18), Archbishop Anselm I (reg. 813-18) 1897 reliquary in crypt, design Ippolito Marchetti, execution Giovanni Lomazzi relics of SS. Ambrose, Gervasius, Protasius relics oblique from left, showing skulls