DESK CASE L. Replica of the Phaistos Disc

Accession Number AN1911.601
Year 1908 - 1911
Dimensions dia. 16 cm
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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The Phaistos Disc was discovered in 1908 by Italian excavators. Evans was particularly interested in it because of his study of the Cretan scripts and discussed it as some length in the Palace of Minos. It remains undeciphered.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I1, pp. 647-668, fig. 482
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 27