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Openwork ornaments from Armenia. Solar system, the sun motif.

Pictures and info by Vladimir Dar from an exhibition  “Armenia. Legend of Being” [Выставка “Армения. Легенда Бытия” или Сокровища Урарту] https://vladimirdar.livejournal.com/76602.html

Openwork bronze ornaments,
12th-11th century BCE, Armenia.

The ornament represents a geocentric model of the solar system.
At the bottom is the Earth (base in the form of an axe), “surrounded” by water and the atmosphere. The disk at the top is the Sun. Between the Earth and the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon.

Plaque from Aparan.

Ornament from Lori-Archish [Лори-Арчиш], representation of the Sun.

9.0×10.0x0.5 cm (Museum of the History of Armenia). Decorated cast, discoid, azhurous, with hanging loops; symbolizes the sun. In the center is a circle with a cross bordered by triangles. [https://russia-armenia.info/node/25145]

“Pendant, 15th-14th C. BC, Getashen, bronze, History Museum of Armenia 2514-2.
A disc-shaped pendant with a cruciform ornament in the center. Similar pendants were charms, pointing to the corners of the earth and associated with sun worship.”

Source:
Armenian Museum of America
TREASURES OF ARTSAKH: PART I


Изделия с перегородчатой инкрустацией в предскифских и раннескифских памятниках.

Tatyana Ryabkova

https://www.academia.edu


https://www.museum.ie/getmedia/588d4c64-22f9-4771-9e78-d2e1279eed7d/Summer-Sun-Discs-School.pdf

https://100objects.ie/pair-of-gold-discs/

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