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Phaistos Disc, side A Phaistos Disc, side B Hempl's translation of the opening lines of the disc, from Harper's Magazine [1]: p.196 Many people have claimed to have deciphered the Phaistos Disc. The claims may be categorized into linguistic decipherments, identifying the language of the inscription, and non-linguistic decipherments.
The Phaistos Disc, or Phaistos Disk, is a disk of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC), bearing a text in an unknown script and language. Its purpose and its original place of manufacture remain disputed.
The Phaistos disc was suggested to be a hoax by "some scholars" (one guy, in 2008), but that was short-lived. (Our reference for "the Disc is now generally accepted as authentic" is a publication from 2006, so two years before the hypothesis of forgery, which is impressive foresight?) Card Zero 06:41, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
A symposium was convoked to discuss the Disc in autumn 2008. [4] Eisenberg argues that the disc can be dated by a thermoluminescence test, but in 2009 the Greek curators would not permit the disc to be examined. [3] The authenticity of the Phaistos disc is supported by multiple discoveries made after the disc was excavated in 1908.
In a paper in the July-August 2008 edition of the archaeology journal Minerva, American scholar Dr Jerome Eisenberg published the results of his appraisal of the Phaistos Disc, conducted on behalf of the US Treasury Department and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Eisenberg contends that the Phaistos Disc is a hoax and that its text is a modern invention.
The agency must also root out fake art that’s illegally marked as made by an Indian artist. That’s where Lamar said the agency’s educational programs come into play.
The combination of elaborate clothes that leave the breasts completely bare, and "snake-wrangling", [3] attracted considerable publicity, not to mention various fakes, and the smaller figure in particular remains a popular icon for Minoan art and religion, now also generally referred to as a "Snake Goddess".
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