The Trundholm Sun Chariot is a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark, formed of a bronze statue of a horse pulling a large bronze disk mounted on a device with spoked wheels. It is understood as a representation of the sun being drawn across the sky.
Facts
Year CreatedCirca 1400 BC, Montelius period II, a Nordic Bronze Age dating range, not a precise year. LocationNational Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 1 Primary Material Height (metres)The height component of the object's stated width x height x depth dimensions; the source gives all three together, not height in isolation. Medium
Medium (category) Connections
In Form
Nordic Bronze Age cast-bronze cult object.
In Genre
Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, located there.
Sources
1. Trundholm Sun Chariot (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead paragraph, dating sentence
The sculpture is dated to about 1400 BC, or Montellius period II
Lead paragraph, materials sentence
It consists of two bronze disks that are joined by an outer bronze ring, with a thin sheet of gold applied to one face.
Lead paragraph, location sentence
It is now in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
Lead paragraph, dimensions sentence
The whole object is approximately 54 cm × 35 cm × 29 cm (21 in × 14 in × 11 in) in size (width, height, depth).
- Wikipedia article: work classified by its own real-world art form
lead paragraph
The Trundholm sun chariot (Danish: Solvognen) is a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark. It is a representation of the sun chariot, a bronze statue of a horse and a large bronze disk, which are placed on a device with
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