# The Malia altar stone and the Arkalochori axe

> Two stone and bronze objects with short inscriptions in picture-like signs that CHIC included with reservations: a stone offering table from the palace…

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**ART** 0DEDV4Z7VRN4·Artifact · object

# The Malia altar stone and the Arkalochori axe

PhotographCC0Middle Minoan II to Late Minoan I, c. 1800 to 1500 BC

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[![The same file as the Phaistos Disc mystery's copy of the axe (already on the site).](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cretan-hieroglyphic-a-altar-and-axe-m1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cretan-hieroglyphic-a-altar-and-axe-m1?w=2000)

The same file as the Phaistos Disc mystery's copy of the axe (already on the site).

Two stone and bronze objects with short inscriptions in picture-like signs that CHIC included with reservations: a stone offering table from the palace of Malia, and a bronze votive axe from the Arkalochori cave whose signs are closer to those of the Phaistos Disc. Neither can be assigned to Cretan Hieroglyphic with confidence; the axe is also recorded under the Phaistos Disc mystery on this site.

C messier, 1800. CC0

## Copies 1

**Photograph** C messier · commons.wikimedia.org · CC01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arkalochori_Axe_215.jpg)

## Where it is kept

[Heraklion Archaeological Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQF47G831/heraklion-archaeological-museum) · Museum

## Sources 3

- [Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (CHIC)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGHHEQ8AC/corpus-hieroglyphicarum-inscriptionum-cretae-chic)_SRC_
- [Cretan hieroglyphs (Wikipedia article)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK86XR502/cretan-hieroglyphs-wikipedia-article)_SRC_
- [The Phaistos Disk: A New Way of Viewing the Language Behind the Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQHJYJE4TNT/the-phaistos-disk-a-new-way-of-viewing-the-language-behind)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Malia altar stone and the Arkalochori axe [Artifact ART0DEDV4Z7VRN4]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDV4Z7VRN4
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**ART** 0DEDV4Z7VRN4

Kind

Object

Held by

Heraklion Archaeological Museum

Dated

Middle Minoan II to Late Minoan I, c. 1800 to 1500 BC

Licence

CC0

Place

[Heraklion Archaeological Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQF47G831/heraklion-archaeological-museum)

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[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

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