Keywords: Chartres2006 080.jpg Portail gauche du porche occidental de la cathédrale de Chartres This is the left or Ascension tympanum one of three tympana forming the Royal Portal of Chartres Cathedral The central theme is Christ's ascension but around the edges are the signs of the Zodiac and the Labours of the Months as also found in the Cathedrals of Vezelay and Autun See Chauncey Wood Chaucer and the Country of the Stars Princeton 1970 pp 54-55 own 2006-06-18 Urban Left bay of Royal portal of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres Tympanums of Chartres 01a Reliefs of the Labors of the months Zodiac |