Editing Phaistos Disc (section)

== Discovery ==
[[File:Table Ph1.png|thumb|The Linear A tablet PH-1 that was originally found by archaeologist Zakarias Iliakis next to the Phaistos Disc<ref>Spencer McDaniel 2022, [https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/11/09/the-baffling-ancient-unsolved-mystery-of-the-phaistos-disk/ The Baffling Ancient Unsolved Mystery of the Phaistos Disc.]</ref>]]

The Phaistos Disc was discovered in the [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] palace-site of [[Phaistos]], near [[Hagia Triada]], on the south coast of [[Crete]]; specifically the disc was found in the basement of room 8 in building 101 of a group of buildings to the northeast of the main palace. This grouping of four rooms also served as a formal entry into the palace complex. [[Italy|Italian]] archaeologist [[Luigi Pernier]] recovered the intact "dish" on 3 July 1908 during his [[Excavation (archaeology)|excavation]] of the first Minoan palace.<ref>Pernier, Luigi, "Il Disco di Phaestos con Caratteri Pittografici (Tav. IX-XIII)", Ausonia 3, pp. 255-302, 1909</ref>

The disc was found in the main cell of an underground "temple depository". These basement cells, only accessible from above, were neatly covered with a layer of fine [[plaster]]. Their content was poor in precious artifacts, but rich in black earth and ashes, mixed with burnt [[bovine]] bones. In the northern part of the main cell, in the same black layer, a few centimetres south-east of the disc and about {{cvt|50|cm|abbr=off}} above the floor, [[Linear A]] tablet 'PH-1' was also found.<ref>Pernier, Dr. Luigi, "Rendieonti della Reale Aeeademia dei Lincei, Classe di Seienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche", Series V, vol. 17, pp. 642-651, 1908</ref>