# Simon Davis 1961: The Phaistos Disk and the Eteocretan Inscriptions from Psychro and Praisos

> Simon Davis, 1961. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 36 pp. Reads the Praisos and Psychro texts…

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# The Phaistos Disk and the Eteocretan Inscriptions from Psychro and Praisos

Simon Davis, 1961.

**Eteocretan and Eteocypriot** Bookdoi: **[10.2307/628485](https://doi.org/10.2307/628485)** 0

## What it's used for here

Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 36 pp. Reads the Praisos and Psychro texts, with the Phaistos Disc, as a Hittite-like Anatolian language. The DOI is M. Pope's review in the Journal of Hellenic Studies 83 (1963), which rejected the method. Source for the earliest Anatolian reading and its rejection.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Davis's 1961 Hittite-based reading of the Praisos and Psychro texts assigned meanings to isolated words without…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEED2QADJJH/daviss-1961-hittite-based-reading-of-the-praisos-and-psychro)

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[Eteocretan and Eteocypriot](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot)

The mystery article

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[What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8QBDF18/what-language-do-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-of-praisos-and)

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## Cite it

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Simon Davis (1961). The Phaistos Disk and the Eteocretan Inscriptions from Psychro and Praisos. https://doi.org/10.2307/628485
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.2307/628485)

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