Phaistos Disc
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The Phaistos Disc, or Phaistos Disk, is a disc of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age, bearing a text in an unknown script and language. Its
Phaistos Disc — Side A
Phaistos Disc — Side B
Palace complex at Phaistos
Ritual sea snail (triton) conch, decorated with red paint. Phaistos, 3600–3000 BC.
Phaistos
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Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete. It is notable for the remains of a M
Phaistos Disc
…spelled Phaestos or Festos. The disc was discovered on 3 July 1908 by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier during the excavation of the Minoan palace of Phaistos. The disc is about 16 cm (6.3 in) in diameter and is covered on each side with a spiral text, consisting of a total of 242 occurrences of 45 distinct…
A layout of the palace with descriptors. Further excavation has revealed more of the site to the South and East.
View of the entrance to the main section of the Phaistos palace.
Excavated section of the Phaistos ruins