 The oldest surviving fitting in the Minster is the column in the choir, which now supports a modern crucifix.Until the fifteenth century it supported a cross coated with a gilt copper sheet, from which the donation plate and probably other remains in the Cathedral treasury were made.The Latin inscription "ISTAM CRUCEM (I)DA ABBATISSA FIERI IUSSIT" (Abbess Ida ordered this cross to be made) allows the creator to be identified with the Essen Abbess Ida, who died in 971, though the sister of Abbess Theophanu, Ida, Abbess of St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne has also been suggested.