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Phaistos Disc
- 2nd millennium BC (?)
Online resources
Web sites of general interest
Academic materials
Fonts
Museums and collections
Bibliography
Web sites of general interest
Phaistos Disc - Wikipedia
Brief page about the Phaistos Disc (with bibliography).
Phaistos Disk
Review of theories about the meaning and function of the Phaistos Disc.
The Phaistos Disc
Enthusiast site about the Phaistos Disc: the evidence, the hypotheses, the text. The site also contains basic information about the Arkalochori axe, a not easily difficultly classifiable Bronze-Age Cretan inscription.
Academic materials
Phaistos Disc
Copy of Index pages and the Appendix dealing with the Phaistos Disc from the volume Creta Minoica by G.M. Facchetti, M. Negri. Florence, Olschki, 2003 (in Italian).
Giorgia Baldacci’s lecture on the Phaistos Disc (2020.10.14)
The lecture addresses the issues related to the find place and the archaeological context of the Phaistos disc.
Fonts
The disk of Phaistos font and LaTeX package
Web page with fonts that can be freely downloaded and used for the writing on the Phaistos Disc (Latex Project Public License). Ed. Apostolos Syropoulos.
The disk of Phaistos font by Michael Everson
Font with the symbols of the Phaistos Disc, designed by Michael Everson.
Alphabetum Unicode font
Font Alphabetum, designed by Juan José Marcos (includes the symbols of the Phaistos Disc).
Aegean font
Font Aegean, designed by George Douros (includes the symbols of the Phaistos Disc).
Museums and collections
Museum of Herakleion (Crete)
The museum where the Phaistos Disc is kept.
Bibliography
NESTOR. Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
Specialized bibliography of studies on Aegean prehistory and protohistory. It can be queried by title or author, and it contains all the main contributions about the Phaistos Disc. Ed. by the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA).