State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, cited here as an institutional record, is the museum's own custodial account of its 2002 recovery and continuing custody of the Nebra Sky Disc, the Bronze Age bronze disc with gold appliques. The museum operates under Saxony-Anhalt's Ministry of Culture with professional archaeological curatorial standards, so its record of the disc's recovery, provenance and its own governance is a reliable primary institutional statement. Its limit is that a custodial record establishes holding and provenance facts, not a scholarly interpretation of the disc's astronomical or ritual meaning, which remains debated among archaeoastronomers. Cite it for the museum and the disc's custody history; the disc's meaning needs dedicated scholarly study.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Custodial/institutional self-account (a museum's own record of its holdings). Museums and other institutional self-accounts sit at tier 2, not tier 1 or tier 3; tier 3 is reserved for a tradition's own account of its own teachings and practice. NotesState Museum of Prehistory, Halle's own custodial record for the object it holds. A standing institutional or private-holder record, not a scholarly publication; use for provenance and holding-institution facts, not for the object's own history or meaning.
Citation
PublisherState Museum of Prehistory, Halle (State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt)
URLhttps://www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/
Source TypeMuseum
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyState Museum of Prehistory, Halle
Custodian BasisThe museum's own account of its founding, governance and its custody of the Nebra Sky Disc since the 2002 recovery.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 9 well-attested.
- Custodians & Museums, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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