This is the National Museum of Denmark's own custodial record for the Trundholm Sun Chariot, the Nordic Bronze Age bronze horse and disc, describing its holding, conservation and display at the museum. As the artifact's legal custodian and cataloguing institution, the museum's own record is the correct source for provenance, holding institution facts and its official account of the object. Its limit is that it is an institutional record, not an independent scholarly study of the object's religious meaning within Bronze Age cosmology, so a claim about that interpretive question needs an archaeological or religious studies source alongside the museum's own account.
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. NotesThe National Museum of Denmark's own custodial record for the Sun Chariot; a standing institutional record, not a scholarly publication, good for provenance and holding-institution facts, not for the object's own history or meaning.
Citation
AuthorNational Museum of Denmark
PublisherNational Museum of Denmark
URLhttps://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-bronze-age/the-sun-chariot/
Source TypeMuseum
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyNational Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet)
Custodian BasisHolding institution of the artifact documented: legal custodian responsible for its conservation, catalogue record, and public interpretation.
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)
This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 10 well-attested.
- Artifacts & Relics, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Historical Periods, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Custodians & Museums, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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