The Nebra Sky Disk

The Nebra Sky Disk

54 x 15 mm Bronze Case with sapphire crystal. Time shown only by a Revolving Hour disk with a hour hand. The disk a replica of the famous Nebra Sky Disk found in Germany in 1999. The disk is manufactured from a brass plate with green urushi dry lacquer

The sky disk contains an arrangement of cosmic contexts and religious symbols from the Bronze Age. It is relatively small, with dimensions of 32 centimeters in diameter and a thickness of 4.5 millimeters. It is made of bronze and contains applications of gold representing the celestial bodies. It is estimated that it was buried around 1,600 B.C., its date of manufacture is put at 2,100 to 1700 BC. Since June 2013, the Nebra Sky Disk has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. "Forged more than 3,600 years ago, it is the oldest concrete representation of the cosmos in the world and an archaeological find of the century that has revolutionized the image of our ancestors." On the disc you can read the following events: Summer Solstice, Fall and Spring Solstice, Winter Solstice.