[SunkenCiv]

Just read a short book with a purported translation, from 1985, and that set me to looking for more, a tiny hobby I revisit from time to time.

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[SunkenCiv]

freerepublic phaistos disk:

Google

[SunkenCiv]

from the same source as the first image:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc

Attempted decipherment

A great deal of speculation developed around the disc during the 20th century. The Phaistos Disc captured the imagination of amateur archeologists. Alas, some of the more fanciful interpretations of its meaning are living classics of pseudoarchaeology.

Many attempts have been made to decipher the code behind the disc's glyphs. Historically, almost anything has been proposed, including prayers, a narrative or an adventure story, a "psalterion", a call to arms, a board game, and a geometric theorem.

Scholarly attempts at decipherment are thought to be unlikely to succeed unless more examples of the glyphs turn up somewhere, as it is thought that there isn't enough context available for meaningful analysis.

Uniqueness

The uniqueness of this archeological object is contested by at least two other apparently related specimens - a votive double axe found by Spyridon Marinatos in the Arkalohori Cave, Crete, and a fragment of a smaller clay disk, found at Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia. However, the first contains only superficially similar hieroglyphics, and the second, interesting as it might prove, disappeared mysteriously. So far, the Phaistos disk remains a hapax.

[SunkenCiv]

Disque de Phaistos search on A9 (nice!):

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[SunkenCiv]

A translation under the assumption that the writing conceals Greek:

http://www.kairatos.com.gr/discosfestos1.htm

A totally different translation under the same assumption:

http://www.andiskaulins.com/publications/phaistos/phaistos77.htm

I'm sure some more will turn up.

[ApplegateRanch]

Sigh. This thing is STILL around? I solved the "mystery" years ago, when I took Introduction to Linguistics:

"A one legged Trojan with a parrot on his head walks into a tavern , and asks the serving wench..."

[SunkenCiv]

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