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Phaistos Disk in a Simple Frame, Handmade Silver Large Pendant-Minoan Bronze Age - Archaeological Museum of Heraklion-Crete-Ancient Greece This most famous example of Minoan pictographic script, unique in its kind, was discovered inside a small room of the Phaistos palace. It dates to the early Neopalatial period & is preserved intact. Both sides of the disc have signs impressed in a single spiraling line beginning at the edge & ending in the center. The inscription uses forty-five signs, which are repeated & grouped to form words separated by vertical incisions. The signs were impressed on the unbaked clay using seals & for this reason, the disc is considered as the earliest known example of typography. Until now several different interpretations of the text have been suggested, none of which is entirely convincing. Modern scholars believe it to be a religious text or hymn. It is noteworthy that several signs of this inscription appear on an axe from Arkalochori. The pendant is handcrafted with extra care in 925 Sterling Silver. It is made in Greece, its diameter size is 24mm, & it weighs approximately 7 g. This pendant is without the chain. (1027) Check our collection of silver pendants at https://www.etsy.com/shop/TalosArtifacts?ref=profile_header§ion_id=37897555 Phaistos Disk in A Simple Frame, Handmade Silver Large Pendant-Minoan Bronze Age - Archaeological Museum Of Heraklion-Crete-Ancient Greece
