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	Phaistos Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phaistos Disc (Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc, Greek: Δίσκος της Φαιστού) is a curious archaeological find, likely dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age.
		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.
		Phaistos Disc characters are shown with left-to-right directionality in this article; which is also the typical practice for edited Egyptian and Anatolian hieroglyphic text.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phaistos_Disk (2583 words)

	Phaistos
		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.
		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 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 Disk Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Phaistos Disk (or Phaestos Disk) was discovered at the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, near Hagia Triada on the south coast of Crete, in 1903, during the excavation of a site that collapsed during an earthquake ca 1700BCE.
		The disk is now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion in Crete.
		The Phaistos Disk has captured the imaginations of amateur archeologists, and some of the more fanciful interpretations of its meaning are modern classics of pseudoarchaeology.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/p/ph/phaistos_disk.html (236 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		Phaistos is the second largest of the Minoan palaces, after Knossos, and has a rather similar early history.
		It is made of baked clay and on either side is an inscription, which consists of signs impressed on the wet clay with a punch or stamp.
		The Phaistos disk is therefore the "world's first typewritten" document" in the words of John Chadwick.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=Phaistos (293 words)

	Phaistos Disk
		The Phaistos Disk (or Phaestos Disk) was discovered at Phaistos[?], Crete, in 1903, during the excavation of a Minoan site.
		It is a clay disc, about six inches in diameter, inscribed on both sides with pictograms whose purpose and meaning has not yet been definitely established.
		The disk has been assigned a date of about 1700 BC, making it one of the earliest printed inscriptions known to man. It is now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ph/Phaistos_Disk.html (120 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)

	fUSION Anomaly. Phaistos Disk
		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.
		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.
	fusionanomaly.net /phaistosdisk.html (995 words)

	The Phaistos Disk - Crystalinks
		The disk links with the number 6 - which is the Star of David - Merkaba= spiraling in and out of consciousness - the Tree of Life and Qabbalah.
		In the context of the Disk, they seem to imply the end of the time allotted to the "sun head", and so to confirm again the interpretation of the bald head as expression of the long-haired one¹s death at the end of his cycle.
		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)

	Phaistos Disc decipherment claims - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are a large number of claims of decipherment of the Phaistos Disc.
		The claims may be categorized into linguistic decipherments, identifying the language of the inscription, and non-linguistic decipherments.
		Pomerance, Leon, The Phaistos Disk: An Interpretation of Astro- nomical Symbols, Paul Astroms forlag, Göteborg (1976).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phaistos_Disc_decipherment_claims (1068 words)

	The Phaistos Disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Phaistos disk was discovered in 1908 in southern Crete, and apparently dates from about 1700 B.C. It is a two-sided, circular clay tablet, imprinted on both sides, with symbols in a spiral pattern.
		Another speculation is that the disk is an artifact having some ceremonial religious function, and does not represent a sample of a developed writing system.
		The images above were taken from a replica of the disk in the possesion of the author of this page, and colors and microtextures appearing on the tablet do not necessarily reflect properties of the original.
	www.cs.rochester.edu /users/faculty/nelson/courses/cryptology/phaistos_disk/phaistos_disk.html (226 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: In Situ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Phaistos Disk, a round clay tablet of 15,8-16,5 cm diameter, was found in the year 1908 by Pernier (1909)[1] in the NE remains of the older Minoan palace of Phaistos.
		The author produced a disk of Diskos-size and thickness from clay, the consistency of which was such that it did not give way under its own weight, but the clay was still formable to a disk with some force.
		After impression, the disk was put on edge, stood there for about a week, dried with only a minimal broadening of the rim at the standpoint and was finally fired successfully.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/p033.htm (1838 words)

	Phaistos Disk Decipherment update
		Edgar Bowden has also completed a decipherment of the disk that can be read 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.
		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)

	The Phaistos disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Phaistos disk was found in 1908 at the ruins of the earlier Minoan palace of Phaistos in Crete (Greece).
		Numberless attempts have been made so far to decipher the Phaistos disk, using the most diverse methods of study, leading to the most diverge conclusions about the purpose, the contents of its inscription and its creators.
		In this book she provides convincing evidence that the Phaistos disk inscription was written in the syllabic writing system of an ancient Greek dialect.
	www.cc.uoa.gr /~ipolig/fdisk.html (359 words)

	Phaistos Unicode Fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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)

	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.
		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.
		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)

	Unsolved Archaeological Puzzle-the Phaistos Disk - Codes & Cyphers
		The disk is dated between 1700-1400 B.C.E. The disk is fascinating; the symbols are arranged in a spiral pattern on the clay disk.
		Unlike the Rosetta Stone and the Bihistun inscription, the Phaistos disk was not a carved stone.
		The disk was made of clay, and the symbols were stamped into both sides of the soft clay and then baked.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art41999.asp (444 words)

	PHAISTOS DISK Using Magnetic Portal Geometry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The images on the disk are a symbol language representing the various parts of the Isis-Osiris mystery-myth, inwhich good-doing Osiris is opposed by wicked Typhon.
		The portal disk (Phaistos Disk) is a terra-cotta disk ceramically fired and hardened for preservation unlike the thousands of artifacts that were baked.
		The disk is approximately 6-1/4" in diameter and 1" thick.
	www.zayra.de /soulcom/portaldisk (1673 words)

	Star-Gazette.COM News Extra - The need to read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Phaistos Disk, as it came to be called, became famous for the way the message was inscribed.
		It is hard to guess where additional disks might be because experts are not sure where the Phaistos Disk was made.
		The disk was originally part of a stone altar found in another palace on Crete.
	www.stargazette.com /newsextra/needtoread/tests/sunday.html (999 words)

	Phaistos Game ebook offer
		Two of the four rosettes on the Disk, near and at the center of one side, are paired with a picture of a bald head that stands in marked contrast to the head with long rayed hair which is the most frequent sign on the rest of the path.
		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.
		Having studied the disk for 7 years and tried to assimilate all the available information I could understand, (much is available only in other languages), I truly feel that Mr.
	www.phaistosgame.com (1634 words)

	Phaistos Disk Notes
		The characters on the disk are imprinted and not handwritten.
		The Phaistos Disk challenges our intellect with the obvious question of trying to make out the meaning of the text, this however as I said earlier is probably an impossible question.
		That means that the creators of the disk produced the full set of seals that allowed the printing of texts such as the Phaistos Disk.
	users.otenet.gr /~svoronan/disknotes.htm (1337 words)

	Diskos von Phaestos / Phaistos Disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Archeoastronomical document from the 2nd Millennium B.C. The round clay Disk (Diameter 16cm) was discovered in 1908 in Crete.
		On Side B the Disk explains on 30 fields, including 12 peripheral fields and 5 completing-points (called Epagomenen by the ancient Egyptians) a year divided into 12 month x 30 days +5 days = 365 days.
		Therefore as a surprising message from the Disk ; the Beginning of Time is marked by the first Apocatastasis on 5693 B.C. (this Dates are corresponding with the newest AMS Results from the Deep Black Sea Sediments, 5800-5600 B.C., see 'Hiobs Flood' from W.Pitmann and W.Ryan, © 1998).
	www.phaistos-w.de /se18.htm (436 words)

	Online Relics Ltd Phaistos Disk - 1700 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.).
		To this day, many people have claimed to have deciphered the Phaistos Disk, but none are completely convincing.
	www.online-relics.com /acatalog/info_MI_00013c.html (409 words)

	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On July 3d, 1908, the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier found at Phaistos, an ancient city in the south of Crete, Greece, that he was excavating, a strange disk of baked clay.
		The Disk was declared to be indecipherable and therefore useless.
		In his well-known book on the Phaistos Disk, Yves Duhoux(1) has made a careful examination, "shred of pottery by shred of pottery" if I may say so, of what Luigi Pernier has written (He is the Italian archaeologist who made the discovery).
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v002 (2258 words)

	[ JackWesterman.co.uk ] Version 3.0
		I have been trying to crack the strange language on the Phaistos Disk for about a year now.
		A few people including myself believe that the disk may simply be a walkthrough of everyday Minoan life.
		Although many inscriptions were found on the Phaistos site by the archaeologists, they are all in Linear A code which is still undecipherd, and all we know about the site, even its name are based to the ancient writers and findings from Knossos.
	www.jackwesterman.co.uk /jw/phaistos.html (338 words)

	Phaistos Disc (Phaistos Disk) Decipherment
		The Disk was found in the treasure room of a so-destroyed Palace in Phaistos.
		The physical disk surely dates to the 2nd millennium but we date some of the forerunner mathematics and symbols on this disk to earlier periods and to Tifinag pictographic comparables found e.g.
		As a matter of information technology, the Phaistos Disk is also unique in that it unknowingly "anticipates" storage of information on CDs or DVDs, i.e.
	www.lexiline.com /lexiline/lexi3.htm (513 words)

	excerpt
		The twins explain the various scripts used in the Ancient Agean area and why they are crucial to solving the Phaistos Disk.
		The Masseys realize that an application of sound values to the Phaistos Disk with a combination of Linear B, Cypriotic, and Byblic could be the key to unlocking the Disk's secrets.
		The Massey Twins reassess the values they had assigned to Phaistos Characters and realize that they had not been rigorous enough in their methodology.
	home.att.net /~phaistosdisk/ex.html (350 words)

	An Ancient Disk’s Secret Message
		The Phaistos Disk, as it came to be called, became famous for the way the message was inscribed.
		John Chadwick, a professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge in England, calls the Phaistos Disk “the world’s first typewritten document.” Forty-five different characters are stamped onto this disk.
		It is hard to guess where additional disks might be because experts are not sure where the Phaistos Disk was made.
	accelerateu.org /assessments/2002Ela8/AnAncientDisk.htm (737 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.
		In Reply To [lately Davis has interpreted it as a document in the Hittic language in which a king discusses the erection of the Palace of Phaistos.
		In Reply To a king discusses the erection of the Palace of Phaistos.
	www.dropzone.com /forum/Community_C7/The_Bonfire_F1/The_Phaistos_Disk_P1150751 (427 words)

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