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Phaistos Disc
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The Phaistos Disc is a disc of fired clay from the Greek island of Crete, dating possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC). It bears a text on both sides in an unknown script and language, and its purpose and original place of manufacture remain disputed. Discovered in 1908 by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier, the disc is made of fine-grained clay, intentionally and properly fired, and is approximately cylindrical with a diameter of around 16 centimetres (6.3 inches) and a thickness of almost 2 centimetres (0.79 inches), with rounded edges. The disc is an early example of movable-type printing, with the embossed signs that comprise its inscription resulting from separate stamps that were pressed into the soft clay before firing. It has captured the imagination of amateur and professional palaeographers, and many attempts have been made to decipher the text, which comprises 241 occurrences of 45 distinct signs. The Phaistos Disc is now on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum on Crete.Artefact credit: unknown; photographed by C messier; edited by Bammesk


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Check Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland/General.

  1. Polish order of precedence needs quick synching with pl:Precedencja;
  2. Add miliHelen to List of strange units of measurement,
  3. Expand User:Kpalion/Polish constitutions -- per request;


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Personal Information

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IM contact info:

  • ICQ# 13313592
  • Gadu-Gadu: 33713
  • Jabber: przemyslaw@plaskowicki.name

I am usually available on all those thanks to Miranda IM

Background

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I am a lawyer.

Mottos

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amicus <insert friend here>, sed magis amica veritas

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C.S. Lewis

To kill a man in a paroxysm of passion is understandable, but to have him killed by someone else after calm and serious meditation and on the pretext of duty honourably discharged is incomprehensible. -- Marquis de Sade about death penalty

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Pages under my care (sort of)

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Disclaimer

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Feel free to edit this page in order to remove spelling mistakes.

plPolski jest językiem ojczystym tego użytkownika.
en-2This user can contribute with an intermediate level of English.
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