The Nebra Sky Disc (State Museum of Prehistory, Halle)

This is the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle's own custodial record for the Nebra Sky Disc, the museum that holds, conserves and catalogues the bronze age artifact and administers its public interpretation. As the holding institution's own standing record it is authoritative for provenance and custody facts, including the disc's controversial recovery by looters before its recovery for the museum. Its limit is that it is an institutional record rather than a scholarly publication, so a claim about the disc's precise astronomical interpretation or its exact dating, both matters of ongoing scholarly argument, needs a separate scholarly source engaging that debate rather than the museum's own account.