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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.
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.
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.
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)
The rise of the Minoan palaces at Knossos and Phaistos and their new type of urbanized, centralized society with redistribution centers required more storage vessels and ones more specifically suited to a range of functions. In palace workshops, standardization suggests more supervised operations and the rise of elite wares, emphasizing ...
In 1909, Evans published the first volume of Scripta Minoa, which included the then-unpublished Phaistos Disc, which had been discovered in July 1908, and similarly-unpublished tablets excavated by Federico Halbherr from Hagia Triada. Evans named the script of these tablets "Class A" and that of the Knossos tablets "Class B". [42]
seal fragment HM 992, showing a single symbol, identical to Phaistos Disk glyph 21. [8] The relation of the last two items with the script of the main corpus is uncertain; the Malia altar is listed as part of the Hieroglyphic corpus by most researchers. [9] Since the publication of the CHIC in 1996 refinements and changes have been proposed.
Although the Phaistos Disc is generally accepted as authentic by archaeologists, a few scholars believe that the disc is a forgery or a hoax. if appropriate please name the scholars and or show us the references for this statement thanks 70.189.223.151 ( talk ) 18:29, 5 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]