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	Phaistos Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phaistos Disc was discovered in the basement of room 8 in building 101 of the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, near Hagia Triada, on the south coast of Crete.
		The centres of the spirals are not in the centre of the disc, and some of the symbols near the centre are crowded as though the maker was cramped for space.
		Timm concludes that the language of the Disc inscription is the same as the language of Linear A. Timm identifies 20 of the 45 characters with Linear signs, assigning Linear B phonetic values to 16.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phaistos_Disc (3042 words)

	Phaistos - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Phaistos, also Phaestos and Phaestus, was an ancient city on the island of Crete.
		Phaistos was located in the south-central portion of the island, about 3 1/2 miles from the sea.
		The area upon which Phaistos stood was the site where, in 1908, a curious clay disk, dating to about 1700 BC, and containing a sophisticated pictographic writing, was discovered.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Phaistos (198 words)

	The Phaistos Disc: roll ‘em
		The enigmatic Phaistos disc has been interpreted in so many different ways that most have given up all hope that it may ever be properly understood.
		There is nothing remarkable about the disc itself: the inscriptions were made by pressing pre-formed hieroglyphic seals into the soft clay, in a clockwise sequence spiralling towards the disc’s centre.
		That the disc is not a language, despite widely being accepted in some corners, seems quite logical, as the language is totally unique, yet its surroundings – Phaistos – and its date – 1700 BC – would suggest that no such isolated language would exist.
	www.philipcoppens.com /phaistos.html (1742 words)

	Hypotheses about the Phaistos Disc
		The Phaistos Disc was described as right-to-left, i.e.
		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.
		As a result of the interpretation of the alliteration and rhyming pattern in the Phaistos Disc text, indirectly the syllable values of "a" for Linear A would also be confirmed.
	www.kereti.de /thesenEngl.html (1112 words)

	ekdoseis kairatos
		The Disc of Phaistos was found in the northern part of the city, in mixed layer of Palatial and Hellenistic layers.
		The disc is exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion.
		The value of the disc will be recognised only when top astrophysicists, scientist of religion, mathematicians, geometricians, seismologists, geologists, historians will analyse through their science the context of the “message” that the Phaistians sent to us.
	www.kairatos.com.gr /discosfestos1.htm (335 words)

	World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Phaistos Disk
		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.
		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 (1708 words)

	The Phaistos Disc
		The "Phaistos Disc" (or Phaestos disk, Festos disk) can be admired as one of the most impressive artefacts in the archaeological museum in Heraklion.
		In particular the following are used as a factual basis: the structural analysis of the Phaistos Disc text of Ipsen, Godart and Muenzer's comprehensive discussion of the characters, the ideas of Grumach, Nahm, Duhoux and Sornig as well as Neumann's critical evaluation of previous attempts at interpretation.
		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)

	Wikipedia:Peer review/Phaistos Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After a flurry of controversy and expansion, the article seems rather stable now and not too far from FAC.
		In addition, I would like to raise two minor points: First, the four pictures giving a detailed view on certain parts of the disc (such as Diskos.von.Phaistos_Detail.1_11-Aug-2004_asb_PICT3372.JPG) are perhaps redundant.
		There are already two pictures of the disc, two pictures of its replica, and images of all glyphs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Phaistos_Disc (418 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
		Each side of the disc is decorated with characters, which are imprinted with neatly manufactured dies.
		The general opinion, according to the antiquity of the disc, is that it shall be dated back to the 17th century B.C., but based on uncertain factors behind the discovery, there has been thrown doubt about its age, and the disc may prove younger, from about 1400 B.C. (i).
		It is natural, that many attempts have been made to find the meaning at the bottom of the hieroglyphs on the Phaistos disc, primarily by attaching to them phonetic values; yet in the last decades otherwise proposals have turned up, probably under the impression of the failing progress of the philologists.
	web.gvdnet.dk /GVD002393 (941 words)

	Phaistos Disc - TheBestLinks.com - Phaistos Disk, Archaeology, Bird, Boat, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Phaistos Disk, Phaistos Disc, Archaeology, Bird, Boat, Crete, Decipherment...
		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.
		The Phaistos disc was impressed in fresh clay with pre-formed hieroglyphic "seals" on both its sides, in a clockwise sequence spiralling towards the disc center.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Phaistos_Disk.html (600 words)

	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The two dividers (g) ahead of A01 and B01, [Figure 1] initializing both side of the disc, are dotted lines, those two different cross-dividers, and this is new, have the potential as remainder signs too, and are therefore to be regarded as two shortened elements.
		A quotation from Benjamin Schwartz, "The Phaistos Disc I".
		During an examination of a subject as the Phaistos disc, it is inconvenient to refer continuously to the imagery of the characters, consequently they are numbered from 1 - 45, Sir Arthur Evans, Scripta Minoa vol.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v987.htm (3127 words)

	Phaistos Disc: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Phaistos Disc was discovered in the basement of room XL-101 of the Minoan[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] palace-site of Phaistos Phaistos quick summary:
		There are a total of 241 figures on the disc.
		Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/ph/phaistos_disc.htm (1668 words)

	The Energy Swirl within Stones, Circles and the Phaistos Disc
		The Phaistos Disc clearly represents a technique of pressing out or printing, employed in the pottery by the makers, in the moulding of the clay.
		The interpretation that the writer reads in the message of the Disc is that of the mortal coil of life.
		technology employed in the design of the Phaistos Disc should appear to be in agreement with the swirl affect and transposition of energy, that we have found in Bronze Age ruins of stone circles in Britain, dating from 2000 BC.
	www.britishdowsers.org /EEG_site/archive/articles/axc1998_issue_10/phaistosdisk1.htm (810 words)

	The Phaistos Disk - Crystalinks
		The problem is, however, that once there are reasons to think that a valid solution has been found, it is necessary to verify this solution by all means possible (generally by deciphering another text written in the same script), to be sure about it.
		Crossword Puzzle or Game Board -- There are those who feel the signs on the disc's fields were the markings for the fields of a board game which illustrated along its track the journeys of the sun god and the moon goddess, both in astronomical and mythological terms.
		This mark on the Phaistos bald head in the field of death matches again perfectly the timing of death in Senet right after a joining of sun and moon, except that the Egyptians used a different year-length for their calculations and so came up with a different period between such meetings.
	www.crystalinks.com /phaistosdisc.html (3496 words)

	Dropzone.com Skydive Forums: Community: The Bonfire: The Phaistos Disk
		Having just returned from Greece, I found out about The Phaistos Disk, Does anybody know about this, its a strange glyph disc appx 3600yrs old found in Greece that aint with the normal at that time ummm alphabet.
		Both surfaces of this clay disc are covered with hieroglyphs arranged in a spiral zone, impressed on the clay when it was damp.
		Others have suggested that the text is a list of soldiers, and lately Davis has interpreted it as a document in the Hittic language in which a king discusses the erection of the Palace of Phaistos.
	dropzone.com /forum/.../The_Bonfire_F1/The_Phaistos_Disk_P1150751 (427 words)

	Classics Log 9609d - Message Number 4
		The Phaistos disc appears to be a diplomatic letter written in a Cretan variant of Luwian.
		The disc was found in the palace of Phaistos amidst other administrative texts in some kind of an archive very near the throne room.
		Rumpel, D.: "On the Internal Structure of the Diskos of Phaistos", (in Hammerl, R. (ed.), Glottometrika 12, 1990), pp.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/Older/log96/9609d/9609d.4.html (754 words)

	Leon Pomerance -The Phaistos disc an interpretation of astronomical symbols - Robert Browning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leon Pomerance -The Phaistos disc an interpretation of astronomical symbols - Robert Browning
		The Phaistos disc an interpretation of astronomical symbols
		1: The Phaistos disc an interpretation of astronomical symbols.
	www.boook.net /385611_phaistos_disc_interpretation_astronomical_symbols.html (47 words)

	Online Relics Ltd Phaistos Disk - 1700 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to mythology, Phaistos was the seat of King Radamanthis, who was the brother of King Minos.
		The disk of Phaistos, one of the most important examples of hieroglyphic inscription from Crete, was discovered in 1903 in a small room near the depositories of the "archive chamber", in the north - east apartments of the Phaistos palace (1700- 1600 B.C.).
		While not really a printed work, perhaps the Phaistos Disc can be thought of as the earliest typewritten work.
	www.online-relics.com /acatalog/info_MI_00013.html (409 words)

	The Phaistos disk
		This six-inch-diameter clay disk [drawing] [info] was found in 1908 at Phaistos on Crete, and has been dated to sometime before the Thera eruption, c1628 BC.
		In 1975, Jean Faucounau published a little-noticed but quite-convincing translation [Amazon France $15+], arguing that the language was proto-Ionic, and that the mother-culture was closer to Troy than Crete.
		'Phaistos' can be translated as proto-Greek: "the most shiny land-mark to be seen from the sea" (ie, a lighthouse).
	www.robotwisdom.com /science/phaistos (832 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 (3290 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)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1903 the Phaistos Disk, one of the most puzzling objects ever discovered, was found in a building at the Minoan palace at Hagia Triada on the Greek island of Crete (Phaistos site).
		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.
		According to one scholar, the text is a list of soldiers; to another it is a hymn to the "rain lord"; another believes that here the king speaks about the construction of the palace at Phaistos.
	www.greekshops.com /detail.aspx?ProdID=105_32 (331 words)

	Kaulins (1980) The Phaistos Disc: Hieroglyphic Greek with Euclidean Dimensions : The "Lost Proof" of Parallel Lines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Phaistos Disk; Parallel Lines (Geometry); Pre-Euclidean Mathematics; Indo-European Linguistics; Decipherment of Ancient Scripts; Origin of Aegean Cultures; Mediterranean Civilizations; Minoans; Heraklion; Knossos; Crete
		In 1908 the Italian archaeologist, L. Pernier, made an archaeological discovery at the Palace of Phaistos in Crete which has served ever since to excite the interest of expert and layman alike.
		This find was the now famed "Phaistos Disc" (or Disk), a circular wafer of baked clay, two centimeters thick and about sixteen centimeters in diameter, and covered on both sides by pictographic symbols spirally written.
	www.getcited.org /pub/102173659 (132 words)

	Mirago : Science: Social Sciences: Archaeology: Topics: Epigraphy
		Phaistos Disc - Ole Hagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar.
		The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy - The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments.
		The two sides of the Phaistos Disc - Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) - International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts.
	www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Topics/Epigraphy (549 words)

	Archaeology Poetry: A Tale of the Phaistos Disc
		Upon savoring this I moved on to other memories via the article on Knossos which brought me back to 1997 when I was privileged to visit Crete with another bicycle touring group and pedaled to the plethora of that island's archaeological sites.
		Naturally, one of the places visited was the palace at Phaistos, where I had the never to be forgotten opportunity of standing within remnants of the very room where the famous Phaistos Disc had been found in 1908.
		Having seen the disc in the Herakleion Museum and listening to a talk on its finding and the might-be of its varied meanings, I simply could not resist thoughts concerning its creator, what might have been on his mind, as well as other circumstances leading up to its creation.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/poetry/steinberg.html (522 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Phaistos Disc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 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 Linear A. Because no other similar artifacts have ever been found anywhere in the Crete, it is thought that the object was foreign and brought in from another place.
	www.ancientscripts.com /phaistos.html (232 words)

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