• The Franks Casket. Early 8th century Anglo-Saxon. On the right side of the front of the casket is a highly stylized version of the Adoration of the Magi.
  • It served as a reliquary but was probably made to hold a holy text such as a Gospel, or the Psalms, and this may have been the original purpose of the Franks Casket.
  • The casket was bought from a Parisian antique shop by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks donated the casket to the British Museum in 1867.
  • ...https://web.archive.org/web/20120303013402/http://homeros.godsong.org/FRANKS_CASKET.pdf.
  • The remaining panels were presented to the British Museum by one of its greatest benefactors, Sir Augustus Franks, after whom the casket is named.
  • Where is Franks Casket? It was first recorded in the possession of a family at Auzon in the Auvergne, during which time it was… dismantled.
  • *M. Clunies Ross, "A suggested Interpretation of the Scene depicted on the Right-Hand Side of the Franks Casket", Medieval Archaeology 14 (1970), pp. 148-152.
  • Becker, Alfred, Franks Casket website dated 2002, with English and German versions. Bouman, A.C., "The Franks Casket," Neophilologus 3 (1965): 241-9.
  • The runic text of the Franks Casket is transcribed below in Unicode. Five cryptogrammic runes for the vowel letters that occur on the right panel of the casket were...
  • The Capture of Jerusalem Panel of the Franks Casket (Illustration) - World History Encyclopedia Franks casket By World History Encyclopedia.