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• Matossian, Mary, Kilbourne

The objective of this paper is to contribute to the decipherment of the Phaistos Disk. The present assumption is that the Disk was a solar calendar. The proposed method is used to recreate the night sky over Crete in the year 1613 B.C., beginning on September 1, and to follow the astral phenomena for a year thereafter. In addition, the figures on the Disk are interpreted by what is known about Bronze Age Cretan culture, especially agriculture. The result was a set of plausible interpretations of most of the icons found on the Disk. The conclusion is that the Phaistos Disk Unknown Script was created primarily to serve as a guide to the timing of agricultural activities and religious rituals.

• History and Archaeology

• Αρχαιολογία

opium, bull rituals, double axe, planets, constellations, Phaistos disc, Minoan calendar

Corresponding author: mary@matossian.net, I wish to thank Michele Matossian, my daughter, for her leadership in preparing the final draft of the manuscript of my study of the Phaistos Disk.

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