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	Phaistos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Phaistos is located 62 km south of Iraklion and, administratively, is part of the Municipality of Kamilari.
		The exact location of Phaistos was first determined in the middle of the 19th century by the British admiral Spratt, while the archaeological investigation of the palace started in 1884 by the Italians F. Halbherr and A. Taramelli.
		It was destroyed by the Gortynians during the 3rd century B.C. In spite of that, Phaistos continued to exist during the Roman period.
	www.interkriti.org /visits/phaistos.htm (401 words)

	Crete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The palace of Phaistos commands the Messara plain from its location on a low hill, and it is the second in size palace of Crete after Knossos.
		History The exact location of Phaistos was first determined in the middle of the 19th century by the British admiral Spratt, while the archaeological investigation of the palace started in 1884 by the Italians F. Halbherr and A. Taramelli.
		According to mythology, Phaistos was the seat of king Radamanthis, brother of king Minos.
	www.milatos.com /crete/crete.asp?propertyid=44 (410 words)

	Phaistos
		Aesthetically, Phaistos is built on the most spectacular setting of all palaces in Crete, high on a dramatic hill, overlooking the entire Messara plain framed by the Asterousia mountain range which is sprinkled with small villages to the south, and the Lasithi mountains to the East.
		The old levels are best preserved at Phaistos, more than in other palaces around Crete, and have prompted scholars to conclude that the complexity of the structures was not dramatically increased during the rebuilding of the Neopalatial period.
		The palace of Phaistos used the small river Ieropotamos at the foot of the hill for its water supply, along with some deep wells on the palace itself.
	www.ancient-greece.org /archaeology/phaistos.html (831 words)

	Phaistos
		The Palace of Phaistos lies on the East end of Kastri hill at the end of the Mesara plain in Central Southern Crete.
		On the slopes of Psiloritis is the Kamares cave, probably a religious or cult centre for Phaistos and the Mesara plain.
		To the south west is Kommos, the ancient port of Phaistos and to the east, the vast Mesara plain.
	www.uk.digiserve.com /mentor/minoan/phaistos.htm (1675 words)

	Phaistos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The palace of Phaistos is located on a low hill which controls the Mesara plain, the most fertile area in Crete.
		Phaistos continued to be an important town in Greek times and is mentioned by Homer.
		The life of Phaistos came to an end around 200 BCE when it was destroyed by its neighbor, the town of Gortyn, which had developed into the greatest power in the Mesara plain.
	www.grisel.net /phaistos.htm (974 words)

	Phaistos Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phaistos Disc (Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc, Festos Disc, Greek: Δίσκος της Φαιστού) is a curious archaeological find, most likely dating from about 1700 BC.
		The Phaistos Disc was discovered in the basement of room XL-101 of the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, near Hagia Triada, on the south coast of Crete.
		Although there is no official Unicode encoding for the symbols on the disk, the ConScript Unicode Registry has assigned a block of the Unicode Private Use Area to be used for the script.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phaistos_Disc (1096 words)

	Phaistos
		Phaistos was the last of the palaces I visited during our vacation in 2003, and it was by far the most rewarding experience.
		This is due to the fact that after the palace's destruction in 1700 BCE the rebuilding process took care to preserve as much of the old palace as possible, and all new construction congruously complemented the older structures.
		One of the most impressive features of Phaistos for me was the West court which is formed in an almost triangular shape and is framed to the north and southwest by the imposing theatrical area and the mysterious koulouras respectively.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/crete/phaistos.html (1354 words)

	Hypotheses about the Phaistos Disc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The print traces were used to support an argument for Side B being imprinted after completion of Side A. Even a reader familiar with the Phaistos Disc script would require marks to read the text on both sides of the artefact in the correct sequence.
		Consequently, the pointed form of the spiral group in the centre of Side B might mean "the text is continued"; in addition, the lines in front of the point line on Side A could be interpreted as the character meaning "continuation of a first part".
		The conclusion that the Phaistos Disc was not written in a letter script or a logographic script can be drawn from a comparison of the statistically striking features of the Phaistos Disc text with known script systems.
	www.kereti.de /thesenEngl.html (1112 words)

	World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Phaistos Disk
		Since 1900, continuous archaeological excavations from the Italian Archaeological School, have brought to light the magnificent Minoan palace of Phaistos with its great royal courts, the great staircases, the theatre, the storerooms and the famous disk of Phaistos.
		Fischer's previous decipherment, of a Cretan artifact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean Greek.
		The book shows how the mysterious symbols of the Phaistos Disc, found in Crete at the beginning of the 20th century, can be used to demonstrate a fantastic system of measuring time, space and distance, that existed as early as 3,500 BC in the Far West of Europe.
	www.world-mysteries.com /sar_9.htm (1651 words)

	Millennium Foundation of Canada: About The Phaistos Disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Phaistos Disk remains to this day, one of the great enigmas of its kind...
		The Disk, 16 centimeters in diameter (or 6 inches, approximately the size of the palm of your hand) was originally dated 17th Century BCE because of some tablets of that date found next to it.
		Whatever the story of the Phaistos Disk, it remains an enigma to humankind over the millennia.
	www.millennia.org /phaistos.html (353 words)

	Phaistos Unicode Fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Phaistos script consists of the symbols found on a clay disk during a 1908 archaeological excavation in Phaistos, Crete.
		The disk is referred to as the "Phaistos Disk" and has been dated to 1700 BCE.
		Phaistos is not part of the Unicode Standard.
	www.travelphrases.info /gallery/Fonts_Phaistos.html (251 words)

	Phaistos Disk Decipherment update
		This article is the fourth of a series about the Phaistos disk and its object is to to seek for equivalents for disc signs in the list of Linear B signs.
		Peter Aleff claims that the Phaistos Disk is not a text but the surface of a gameboard.
		In his article "Ancient Greek alliterative verse-metrics on the Phaistos Disk: an Anatolian cult of Cybele Axe-Goddess and Poseidon Hippios" he claims that the text describes a religious culta and that the language is Greek.
	users.otenet.gr /~svoronan/phaistos.htm (2947 words)

	Phaistos Disc Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The two-sided Phaistos Disc is the only example of its kind, as no other inscription bearing similarly shaped signs has been found.
		It was found in the ancient city of Phaistos in Southern Crete.
		It is thought to date to around 1700 BC (from associated archaelogical context), thus contemporary with the Linear A script.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/script/phais.html (258 words)

	Aegean Delphi Mycenae Knossos Phaistos Mallia Pictures of Record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Phaistos is best preserved for both the "protoplatial" period of the Middle Bronze Age and the "neopalatial" period of the Late Bronze Age.
		After Knossos and Phaistos, Mallia is the third of the great Minoan palaces on Crete.
		Built in the 16th century B.C. and contemporary with the Late Bronze Age palace at Phaistos, the small palace of Hagia Triada, with its lavish residential quarters, fine wall paintings and luxury goods may have been the summer headquarters of the Phaistos royal family.
	www.picturesofrecord.com /aegean.htm (544 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Phaistos Disk
		The Phaistos Disk (or Phaestos Disk, Festos Disk) was discovered in the basement of room XL-101 of the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, near Hagia Triada, on the south coast of Crete.
		Indeed, the Phaistos Disk belongs to the 2000 BC - 1700 BC phase of the early Cycladic Bronze Age.
		The sea people who carved the Phaistos Disk in clay must then have been contemporary with those mysterious navigators around Delos who gave names to constellations, settled all around the Mediterranean and florished well in advance of the Minoan thalassocracy.
	fusionanomaly.net /phaistosdisk.html (995 words)

	Phaistos ConScript Unicode Standard
		The Phaistos Disk was discovered in an archaeological dig in Phaistos, Crete, in 1908.
		Nor should the Phaistos Disk be taken as the only possible specimen of this script — the fact that somebody went to the trouble to create stamps with which to write it implies that it was used for more than one document.
		References to the Phaistos disk and reproductions of it are remarkably easy to come by.
	www.evertype.com /standards/csur/phaistos.html (352 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: In Situ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Further, the spatial distribution of the character-imprints in the spirals is analysed and compared to the distribution of overprints and corrections.
		The paper tries to add to the interpretation of the Phaistos Disk some more physical information, which might be useful in further work on the object.
		It is demonstrated that the dies applied in printing the Phaistos-Disk can effectively be used for printing on a flat surface, whereas their application in clay has definite drawbacks.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/p041.htm (3233 words)

	The Phaistos Disc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The fascination of the Phaistos Disc does not only arise from the one-off creation of the artefact but in particular from the fact that it still has not been possible to decipher it.
		Even if serious researchers into the artefact agree that to decipher the "Phaistos Disc" it is necessary to have others texts of the same script type, earlier attempts have been continued to consider solving the mystery in a systematic way.
		In addition, interpretation of the Phaistos Disc as a product of Minoan culture is supported by the location where the Phaistos Disc was found and the scientific determination of age based on the circumstances surrounding the find.
	www.kereti.de /indexEngl.html (624 words)

	Math Help Forum - Math Games & Math Homework Help - Speed
		Two cars on Crete left the towns of Knossos and Phaistos at the same time to drive to the other town, passing each other at Gortyns and both travelling at different constant speeds.
		PG = a = distance from Phaistos to Gortyns, in km.
		On second thought, Knossos, Gortyns and Phaistos don't have to be in a straight line.
	www.mathhelpforum.com /math-help/showthread.php?t=239 (528 words)

	FSP-Greece-2005: April 9: Laura and Jackie Reporting
		Throughout this week and today especially at Phaistos, one aspect of Minoan palaces that has really surprised me is the use of polychromatic stones.
		In Phaistos, for example, many of the columns are made of chlorite schist, which is a beautiful green stone.
		One of the most effective uses of gypsum is in the entrance to Phaistos.
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /blog/classes/greece2005/archives/april_10_2005_0409_am/000519.html (735 words)

	Faistos Disc
		Phaistos disk was found in 1908 at the ruins of the earlier Minoan palace of Phaistos in Crete (Greece).
		Its average diameter is 16 cm, it is 2.1 cm thick and it was made of clay.
		The Phaistos disk inscription was written in the syllabic writing system of an ancient Greek dialect.
	web.usf.edu /~hellenic/Framefaistos.htm (359 words)

	Craig Welch: Phaistos disk
		It is important here not to fall back into the same trap by assuming that the hieroglyphics of the Phaistos clay disk must be Mycenaean - I might add, a statistically improbable assumption.
		This picture of evolving and declining culture is generally not disputed these days except in some of the details, but not so much in the overall scheme.
		It is a picture drawn from the results of many different disciplines over the past 150 years since the first discoveries of Niniva in Iraq, the cities of the Hittites in Turkey, the Greek fortresses of Mycenae, Tiryns, and Pylos on the Greek peninsula, Knossos and Phaistos on Crete, and by now many others.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~artsfx/notes2.html (1633 words)

	Phaistos Disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was discovered in 1908 in the ruins of the palace at Phaistos (or Phaestos) on Crete.
		The Phaistos Disk is a baked clay disk, about 15 cm in diameter and 2 cm in cross section, inscribed on both sides with pictographs reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
		Surrounding artifacts dated the disk at around 1600 B.C. The appearance of the pictographs and the type of clay used led researchers to suspect a non-Cretan origin, but similar signs found on a bronze double axe at Arkalachori and a stone artifact at Mallia tended to contradict this theory.
	oneirodynia.woc.org /oneiro1.htm (178 words)

	Phaistos Game ebook offer
		The author of this e-book is an amateur social scientist who has come up with an entertaining, well-documented and extremely convincing explanation for the disk and it's markings.
		This is by far and away the best interpretation and application of the possible meaning of the symbols on the Cretan disk that has baffled layman and specialist alike for a century.
		Peter Aleff has done an incredible job of applying a variety of research methods and drawing from dozens of disciplines to make the case for the disk being a type of ancient board game, heavily influenced by the Egyptian game of Senet, and possibly one of the forerunners of all board games we know today.
	www.phaistosgame.com (1634 words)

	Phaistos Disk
		Click here to download the PDF version of "Mysteries of History Solved!"please note, this is a large and important project and may take slower computers several minutes to load the PDF file.
		The Phaistos Disk, displayed above, was discovered in Crete on July 3rd, 1908.
		It should be noted here that all previous attempts to decipher the Phaistos Disk have been subjective attempts, assigning phonetic values to the characters with no true objective criteria.
	home.att.net /~phaistosdisk/ph.html (588 words)

	The Phaistos Disc
		The Phaistos Disc (Phaestos Disc, Festos Disc) is a curious archeological find, most likely dating from about 1700 BC.
		Although there is no official Unicode encoding for the symbols on the disk, the ConScript Unicode Registry (http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/) has assigned a block of the Unicode Private Use Area to be used for the script.
		Torsten Timm, Der Diskos von Phaistos – Fremdeinfluss oder kretisches Erbe?, BoD, 2005.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/PhaistosDisc.html (678 words)

	Phaistos font. Fonts-online.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Phaistos family fonts (Font Bureau library) are available in OpenType, TrueType, PostScript (Type1) formats for PC and Mac.
		Phaistos was inspired by the vibrant life in Rudolf Koch’s 1922 Locarno, sometimes called “Eve” in the United States.
		David Berlow explored the design through 1989 and 1990, proofing and revising the structure of the tapering verticals to enhance their movement.
	www.fonts-online.com /fonts/Phaistos-font/7132.html (140 words)

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