Place

Phaistos

Minoan palace site

Minoan palace site0

Note

The palace ruins on their ridge above the Mesara plain, 50 m from OpenStreetMap's centre of the site (way 375076151). Room 101, where the disc was found, is not mapped separately. The earlier item id (Q207443) named an Italian town; replaced with the one OpenStreetMap links to the palace.

Located in 1

Crete

Place

PLC

Happened here 5

A sealing bearing sign 21 is excavated in a secure deposit at Phaistos

Event

EVT

Excavations at Phaistos recover fine ware with stamped and relief signs that match six of the disc's signs

Event

EVT

Pernier's mission finds the disc in room 101 at Phaistos

Event

EVT

Pietro Militello re-examines Pernier's notes and the find context in room 101

Event

EVT

The disc is made and stamped, at the start of Middle Minoan IIIA

Event

EVT

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Phaistos [Place PLC0D1GG29G16R8]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0D1GG29G16R8

@misc{mysteriesdept_plc0d1gg29g16r8,
  title     = {Phaistos},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Place, catalog key PLC0D1GG29G16R8},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0D1GG29G16R8}
}