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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.
While the consensus of scholars is that the text on the disk should be read in right-to-left order (counterclockwise from the edge inwards, with the start of the text at the bottom), most published works about the disk in languages with left-to-right reading order show the text in left-to-right reading order too.
Social interface is a concept from social science (particularly, media ecology (Marshall McLuhan) and sociology of technology). It can be approached from a theoretical or a practical perspective. As a concept of social interface theory, social interface is defined by Norman Long (1989, 2001).
Personally I find the chances of the Phaistos Disc being authentic as being far less than the chances for the Kensington Runestone. For the Kensington stone to be authentic we only have to assume that Vikings (or Swedes) had boats. For Phaistos Disc to be authentic we have to assume that Gutenberg had a time machine. Extraordinary claims need ...
Evans classified fine pottery by the changes in its forms and styles of decoration. Platon concentrated on the episodic history of the Palace of Knossos. A new method, fabric analysis, involves geologic analysis of coarse and mainly non-decorated sherds as though they were rocks. The resulting classifications are based on composition of the sherds.
Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland. [1]
There are already two pictures of the disc, two pictures of its replica, and images of all glyphs. Therefore, the value of those four "middle-range" pictures is minimal. Second, it is not necessary to overuse internal links.