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  • An interpretation of the Nebra disc

  • Emília Pásztor, Curt Roslund
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 81 / Issue 312 / 1 June 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 267-278
    Print publication:
    1 June 2007

  • The Nebra disc is one of the most sensational European discoveries of the decade. It appears to carry symbols of the sun, moon and stars wrought in gold on a flat bronze disc just over a foot across (320mm). It is not only very strange, but, famously, appears to be winking, initially raising the suspicion that it may be a hoax. Scholars have, however, claimed it firmly for the Bronze Age, and the debate now moves to the matter of its meaning. Here the authors offer a subtle interpretation that sees it as the shamanistic device of a local warrior society.