The Phaistos Disc
- Date of account
- Found in 1908; generally associated with the Middle Minoan period
- Location
- Phaistos, Crete, Greece
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Phaistos Disc is a fired clay disc bearing a spiral arrangement of stamped signs, discovered by Luigi Pernier at the Minoan palace of Phaistos. It is usually assigned broadly to the second millennium BCE, but its dating, function and authenticity have been debated because it is unique and its archaeological documentation is limited. Numerous proposed readings have not gained consensus. The object matters for comparison with undeciphered scripts and the risks of interpreting isolated artefacts. It should be described as an enigmatic inscription, not as confirmed evidence of a lost language or external civilization.
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