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=== Linguistic === Unless said otherwise, the attempts below assumed the right-to-left (clockwise, edge-to-center) reading direction, starting with side A. * [[George Hempl]], 1911: interpretation as [[Ionic Greek]], syllabic writing.<ref name=hemp1911>{{cite magazine|first=George| last=Hempl |date=January 1911|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-magazine_1911-01_122_728/page/186/mode/2up | title=The Solving of an Ancient Riddle: Ionic Greek before Homer| magazine=Harper's Monthly Magazine|volume=122|issue=728|pages=187–198 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> * [[Florence Stawell]], 1911: interpretation as [[Homeric Greek]], syllabic writing; B-side first.<ref name="staw1911">{{Cite journal |last=Stawell |first=F. Melian |date=1911 |title=An Interpretation of the Phaistos Disk |url= |journal=The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs |volume=19 |issue=97 |pages=23–38 |issn=0951-0788 |jstor=858643}}</ref> * [[Albert Cuny]], 1914: interpretation as an ancient [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] document, syllabic-logographic writing.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} * [[Benjamin Schwartz (linguist)|Benjamin Schwartz]], 1959: interpretation as Mycenean Greek, syllabic writing, comparison to Linear B.<ref name=schwa1959a/><ref name=schwa1959b/> * [[Jean Faucounau]], 1975: interpretation as "[[proto-Ionic]]" Greek, syllabic writing.<ref name=fauc1975>Jean Faucounau (1975): "Le déchiffrement du Disque de Phaistos est-il possible par des méthodes statistiques ?" ''Revue des Études Anciennes'', volume 77, issues 1-4, pages 9-19. {{doi|10.3406/rea.1975.3981}}</ref><ref name=fauc1999>Jean Faucounau (1999): ''Le déchiffrement du Disque de Phaistos''. Paris.</ref><ref name=fauc2001>Jean Faucounau (2001): ''Les Proto-Ioniens : histoire d'un peuple oublié''. Paris.</ref> * [[Vladimir I. Georgiev]], 1976: interpretation as [[Hittite language]], syllabic writing; reading outward.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} * [[Steven R. Fischer]], 1988: interpretation as a Greek dialect, syllabic writing.<ref name=fisch1988>Steven R. Fischer (1988): ''Evidence for Hellenic Dialect in the Phaistos Disk''. {{ISBN|3-261-03703-2}}</ref> * [[Kjell Aartun]], 1992: interpretation as a [[Semitic language]], syllabic writing; reading outward.<ref name="bali2000">{{Cite book |last=Balistier |first=Thomas |title=The Phaistos Disc – an account of its unsolved mystery |publisher=Verlag Dr Thomas Balistier |year=2000 |isbn=978-3980616805}}</ref> * [[Derk Ohlenroth]], 1996: interpretation as a Greek dialect, alphabetic writing; reading outward; numerous homophonic signs.<ref name=ohl1996>Derk Ohlenroth (1996): ''Das Abaton des lykäischen Zeus und der Hain der Elaia: Zum Diskos von Phaistos und zur frühen griechischen Schriftkultur''. {{ISBN|3-484-80008-9}}</ref><ref name=bali2000/> * Adam Martin, 2000: interpretation as a Greek-Minoan bilingual text, alphabetic writing; reading outward, side A as Greek, side B as Minoan.<ref name=mart2000>Adam Martin (2000): ''Der Diskos von Phaistos – Ein zweisprachiges Dokument geschrieben in einer frühgriechischen Alphabetschrift'' {{ISBN|3-9807169-1-0}}.</ref> * Achterberg et al., 2004: interpreted as [[Luwian language|Luwian]].<ref name=acht2004/> * [[Torsten Timm]], 2005: syllabic writing, comparison to Linear A; B-side first.<ref name="timm2005">{{cite book |last=Torsten |first=Timm |title=Der Diskos von Phaistos - Fremdeinfluss oder kretisches Erbe? |year=2008 |publisher=Books on Demand |isbn=978-3833424519 |edition=2nd |language=de |orig-date=2005}}</ref> * [[Gareth Alun Owens]], 2007: interpretation as Indo-European, syllabic writing, comparison to Linear A.<ref>{{cite web |title=daidalika/07_chapter_85-99 |url=http://www.teicrete.gr/daidalika/07_chapter_85-99.pdf |type=}} {{dead link|date=August 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
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