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Historical Archive: Apostles Casket, Bamberg Casket ivory, full long panel 11.8 x 23.5 cm (4.6 x 9.25 inches) around 870, West Frankish kingdom (Court School of Charles the Bald?) formerly in Bamberg cathedral treasury missing short side: plaster cast of destroyed panel, BNM MA 312 Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum MA 174-176 full long side long side center figures center right figure, probably Christ oblique with plaster short side: Libra, Scorpio damaged long side ivory short side: Aries, Taurus Gemini apostle under Gemini column between Gemini and Cancer Cancer spandrel between Cancer and Leo Leo Virgo Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces