1700 BC CRETE MINOS PHAISTOS DISC

A fired-clay disc from the Minoan palace of Phaistos, stamped on both sides with 45 distinct symbols arranged in a spiral, now in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Dated to around 1,700 BC; among its symbols is an arrangement of six dots around a seventh, read by some as a satkona.

The card

• Date — 1,700 BC
• Where — Phaistos, Messara plain, Crete, Greece. 35.0514, 24.8136 — site
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

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• Phaistos Disc

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