Robert Bradford Lewis
An Explication of the Phaistos Disk
https://www.phaistosdisk.com/ Accessed on 2023-08-25
Undated, but in the source there are some 2021 dates.
Amateur, superficial analyisis of the disk results in getting the
direction wrong. "I have looked for a syllabary here. I have searched
for phonemic orthography and an alphabet here as well. Their
likelihood here seems remote, to the best of my ability to discern,
and frankly, I have found a perfectly serviceable solution in a
writing system comprised entirely of logograms, pictograms, compounds
and determinatives." ... "On the recto side is a royal genealogy of
deified kings, and on the verso side, is a mythical flood narrative."
[Giorgia Baldacci (2021): "[https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2021/11/phaistos-disk The Phaistos Disk-An Enigmatic Artifact in its Cultural Context]". ''The Ancient Near East'' (online journal), volume 9, issue 11 (November). Accessed on 2023-08-25.]
Article pointing out two artifacts from Minoan Grete that bear signs
similar to 21 COMB, specifically a potter's mark under the bottom of a
bowl, and an impression from a sealing stamp.
The mysterious Phaistos Disc: a lost message from the ancient world
https://geoffjward.medium.com/the-mysterious-phaistos-disc-a-lost-message-from-the-ancient-world-5e5314c61b5e
Geoff Ward, Mar 3, 2020 Accessed 2023-08-25
Amateur. "[...] the spiral being the age-old symbol, found in cultures
the world over, of creation, life-giving and aspiration, of birth and
rebirth, and of spiritual development and our identity with the
universe [...] although there are theories [...] that the disc
portrays an address to a goddess of childbirth or fertility.
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV.
R. M. Dawkins, Charles H. Hawes and R. C. Bosanquet
The Annual of the British School at Athens
Vol. 11 (1904/1905), pp. 258-308 (71 pages)
Published By: British School at Athens
NOT READ
Unpublished Objects from Palaikastro and Praisos. II
R. W. Hutchinson, Edith Eccles and Sylvia Benton
The Annual of the British School at Athens
Vol. 40 (1939/1940), pp. 38-59 (41 pages)
Published By: British School at Athens
NOT READ
On the internal structure of the diskos of Phaistos text
D. Rumpel (1990)
Glottometrika, volume 12, pages 131-149.
Assigns open syllables ("Ba", "Be", ... "Yu") "so as not to coincide
with those of Pelasgic or Aegean languages" for computer analysis.
Assumes the reading is center-out, because "the text seems to 'make
some sense' when read in this direction". (?) Notes that there are
many repeated pairs, triples, and even quadruples of signs.
Makes some long guesses about grammar.
[Michael Trauth (1990): "The Phaistos Disc and the Devil's Advocate: On the Aporias of an Ancient Topic of Research". [https://www.iqla.org/includes/basic_references/12_Glottometrika_Hammerl_1990_QL_45.pdf ''Glottometrika'', volume 12] (= ''Quantitative linguistics'', volume 45), pages 151–173. Quote: "Crete as [the] source of the Disc can no longer be called into question."]
Diameter varies from 15.8 to 16.5 cm, thickness from 1.6 to 2.1 cm.
Cites Rumpel "the museum o Hagios Nikolaos houses the 'head of a
female worshipper from Middle Minoan mountaintop santuary of
Petsophas' with a headdress similar to that of 6 WOMAN."
Notes that half of the signs appear on only one side, and the most
frequent ones have very different frequencies on each side, arguing
that it is evidence *against* syllabary. Another argument is that
the "words" would have too many syllables. Concludes that it is
mostly ideographic.