The Phaistos Disc, 2nd Millennium BCE. A clay-fired disk bearing a text in an unknown script and language. Its purpose and its original place of manufacture remain disputed. Discovered on the island of Crete in 1908. Now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion.[3298×3106]
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[Phaistos Disc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc)
>The uniqueness of the script, of the spiral arrangement, and of the method of writing (individual glyph stamps) have led some scholars to raise the possibility that the Phaistos disc is a 1908 forgery or hoax.[8][31] It was pointed out that the date of manufacture has never been established by thermoluminescence dating.[32] However, the Disc is now generally accepted as authentic by archaeologists.[33] Andrew Robinson concurs that thermoluminescence dating would be highly desirable, but does not endorse the forgery arguments.[30]
>The precise excavation records maintained by Luigi Pernier have always been a problem for the hoax hypothesis. That hypothesis was eventually put to rest by the discovery of the other artifacts in Crete with similar glyphs, which a 1909 hoaxer would not have known about. Also, a gold signet ring from Knossos (the Mavro Spilio ring), found in 1926, contains a Linear A inscription laid out in a spiral, similar to the Phaistos Disc.[34]
I can’t stop thinking this looks like an almanac for how long foodstuffs will last at sea.
Similar to some ‘unexplained’ item found at a viking burial(?) posted here a while ago.
OG piss disc!