Phaistos Disc
The Phaistos Disc, or Phaistos Disk, is a disc of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age, bearing a text in an unknown script and language.
- Ruins
- Description: inscribed fired clay tablet found in Crete, covered on both sides with undeciphered spiral Minoan writing
- Also known as“Festos disc”“Phaestos disc”“Phaistos Disc location”“Phaistos disk”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Palace of Phaistos and King’s Megaron.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Voroi and Petrokefali.
Phaistos Disc
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Latitude
35.05171° or 35° 3′ 6″ north
Longitude
24.81486° or 24° 48′ 54″ east
Open location code
8G763R27+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruins
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Phaistos Disc” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Skyf van Phaistos”
- Arabic: “قرص فستوس”
- Armenian: “Ֆեստի սկավառակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Fest diski”
- Belarusian: “Фесцкі дыск”
- Bulgarian: “Фестоски диск”
- Bulgarian: “Фестски диск”
- Catalan: “disc de Festos”
- Catalan: “Disc de Festos”
- Catalan: “Disc de Phaistos”
- Chinese: “斐斯托斯圓盤”
- Chinese: “費斯托斯圓盤”
- Czech: “Disk z Faistu”
- Danish: “Phaistosskiven”
- Dutch: “Phaestos Disk”
- Dutch: “Phaistos Disc”
- Dutch: “Phaistos Disk”
- Dutch: “Schijf van Phaistos”
- Esperanto: “Disko de Faistos”
- Estonian: “Phaistose ketas”
- Finnish: “Faistoksen diskos”
- Finnish: “Faistoksen kiekko”
- French: “disque de Festos”
- French: “disque de Phaestos”
- French: “disque de Phaistos”
- French: “Disque de Phaistos”
- French: “disque de Phaïstos”
- Georgian: “ფესტოს დისკი”
- Georgian: “ფესტოსის დისკო”
- German: “Diskos von Festos”
- German: “Diskos von Festós”
- German: “Diskos von Phaistos”
- German: “Diskos von Phaistós”
- German: “Phaistos-Scheibe”
- German: “Phaistos”
- Greek: “Δίσκος της Φαιστού”
- Hebrew: “דיסקית פאיסטוס”
- Hebrew: “דיסקית פייסטוס”
- Hungarian: “Phaisztoszi korong”
- Icelandic: “Fæstosdiskurinn”
- Icelandic: “Festosdiskurinn”
- Italian: “disco di Festo”
- Italian: “Disco di Festo”
- Japanese: “ファイストスの円盤”
- Korean: “파이스토스 원반”
- Latin: “Discus ex Phaesto”
- Latin: “Discus Phaestius”
- Lithuanian: “Faisto diskas”
- Macedonian: “Дискот од Фест (ос)”
- Macedonian: “Дискот од Фест”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Diskosen fra Faistos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faistos-diskosen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Festosdisken”
- Norwegian: “Festosdisken”
- Persian: “صفحه فستوس”
- Persian: “صفحهٔ فستوس”
- Polish: “Dysk z Faistos”
- Polish: “Dysk z Fajstos”
- Portuguese: “Disco de Festo”
- Portuguese: “Disco de Festos”
- Portuguese: “Disco de Phaistos”
- Romanian: “Discul din Phaistos”
- Russian: “Фестский диск”
- Serbian: “Фестски диск”
- Slovak: “Disk z Faistu”
- Slovak: “Faistský disk”
- Slovenian: “Disk iz Fajstosa”
- Spanish: “Disco de Festo”
- Spanish: “Disco de Festos”
- Spanish: “Disco de Phaistos”
- Turkish: “Phaistos Diski”
- Ukrainian: “Фестський диск”
- Vietnamese: “Đĩa Phaistos”
- Western Armenian: “Ֆեսթոս սկաւառակ”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Northeast Complex and Queen’s Megaron.
Nearby Places
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