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The article is devoted to the study of the bronzes harness strap-dividers, found near the village. Batina (Western Croatia) at the beginning of the 20th century. The objects are embellished with a four-rayed solar sign. Due to the inaccuracy of the present illustrations and the emerging issues of chronology of the unusually ornamented strapdividers, a detailed analysis became necessary. It has been argued that the origin of the fourrayed rhombus motif is clearly traced in Urartian-Assyrian art. During the analyzes, two types of images were separated, gradually distributed in different periods and in different regions of the Eurasian steppes. The form without a dot in the middle of the motif is noted in burials of the Preclassical horizon (mid – end of the 8th c. BC) and in the monuments, containing riding bridle sets, draft sets, and weapons of Classical Novocherkassk and Early Zhabotin horizons (the last third of the 8th – the first half of the 7th c. BC) in the south of Eastern Europe. Solar signs with a dot in the middle were found in the Early Scythian time burial mounds of the North Caucasus, on the left bank of the Dniepr, and in the eastern Eurasian steppes at the end of the 7th – first half of the 6th c. BC. On the basic of the periodization of the Eastern European materials, it is assumed, that the presence of harness strap-dividers with a solar sign in the south of the Carpathian Basin can be dated not earlier than the last third of the 8th c. BC.