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Historical Archive: Large Bernward Cross oak, gold, silver, and gems, 48 x 37 cm (18.9 x 14.6 inches) Hildesheim, around 1150, from St. Magdalenen Hildesheim cathedral museum DS L 109 loan from parish of St. Godehard, Hildesheim front front, oblique top end, rock crystal over gold cross said to have belonged to Bernward (d. 1022), with ancient intaglios goat, fish?, dolphin left arm, lizard intaglio lower left center rock crystal over True Cross relic right arm, ancient intaglios on horizontal axis lower shaft, ancient intaglios at lower corners base end, ancient intaglios on horizontal axis and lower right back back, Crucifixion lower shaft, profile