"Phaistos Disk Text" Numerical Transcription by Marianna P. Ridderstad

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From: Journal article · Marianna P. Ridderstad · 2010

"Phaistos Disk Text" is a numerical transcription of the symbols on The Phaistos Disk, an artifact found in Crete and published in 1909 by Luigi Pernier. The numerical transcription is solely a series of numbers that correspond to the Phaistos Disk symbols (forty-five symbols, using the Evans numbering system). Side A contains thirty-one symbol groups and Side B contains thirty. The transcription comes from Appendix 2 of Marianna P. Ridderstad's 2010 article titled "Lunisolar Calendrical Symbolism on the Phaistos Disk."
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Cretan Hieroglyphs  ⟶  Evans Numbering System a

Side/No.Numeric Transcript
p. 5, appendix 2
Side A
A1-A3102-12-13-01-18/ 24-40-12 29-45-07/ 29-29-34 02-12-04-40-33 27-45-07-12 27-44-08 02-12-06-18-? 31-26-35 02-12-41-19-35 01-41-40-07 02-12-32-23-38/ 39-11 02-27-25-10-23-18 28-01/ 02-12-31-26/ 02-12-27-27-35-37-21 33-23 02-12-31-26/ 02-27-25-10-23-18 28-01/ 02-12-31-26/ 02-12-27-14-32-18-27 06-18-17-19 31-26-12 02-12-13-01 23-19-35/ 10-03-38 02-12-27-27-35-37-21 13-01 10-03-38
Side B
B1-B3002-12-22-40-07 27-45-07-35 02-37-23-05/ 22-25-27 33-24-20-12 16-23-18-43/ 13-01-39-33 15-07-13-01-18 22-37-42-25 07-24-40-35 02-26-36-40 27-25-38-01 29-24-24-20-35 16-14-18 29-33-01 06-35-32-39-33 02-09-27-01 29-36-07-08/ 29-08-13 29-45-07/ 22-29-36-07-08/ 27-34-23-25 07-18-35 07-45-07/ 07-23-18-24 22-29-36-07-08/ 09-30-39-18-07 02-06-35-23-07 29-34-23-25 45-07/
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Bibliography

Anonymous creator, The Phaistos Disc, c. 1600–1699 BCE. Clay disk, diameter: 0.16m [6.23 in]. Permanent Exhibitions Collection, Room III, Inventory No. AE 1358, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Evans, Arthur J. Scripta Minoa: The Written Documents of Minoan Crete with Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos. Vol. 1, The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1909.
Ridderstad, Marianna P. "Lunisolar Calendrical Symbolism on the Phaistos Disk." Anistoriton 12, no. 2 (2010): 1-5.
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On Side A, the solar figure is first affirmed as the chief ruler. The author then asks for the figure to shine warmth and show its rays in order that the people can be assisted while sailing. On Side B, water is described as flowing westward to Iberia. An Iberian king's twenty daughters are described as watching (perhaps lamenting) the horizon as the sun is chased away by the other stars. Arrows are described as being shot, perhaps toward or from Sagittarius. Finally, the light drifts away to Asia and ascends again when the stars chase it back, ending the poem.