Cleveland Museum of Art
Relic of the Stone which Supported the Cross
- Date
- c. 1045
- Medium
- Limestone, felted fiber
- Culture
- Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This relic is housed inside of the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects. The accompanying parchment identifies the piece of limestone as a portion of the block used to support the Holy Cross on Mount Golgotha.
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