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Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)

This study concerns the graphic character, symbolic meanings, typological parallels, commentaries and reading of the Phaistos Disk pictorial sign PHD38.

This study concerns the graphic character, symbolic meanings, typological parallels, commentaries and reading of the Phaistos Disk pictorial sign PHD38.

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sili III – a w<strong>in</strong>ged disk <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sun – is impr<strong>in</strong>ted on <strong>the</strong> clay<br />

tablet dated from <strong>the</strong> 13 th century BC (see Neve 1996, 33, 60,<br />

57-59).<br />

The variants <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> w<strong>in</strong>ged sun disk found <strong>in</strong> Sumer, Babylon,<br />

Assyria, Mitanni, Egypt, Anatolia, Persia <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r places<br />

are shown below (Kantor 1945; 1999, 544, Fig. XIV.3, 4, 15,<br />

16, 22, 27, 33; 749, Fig. XVIII.9-11, 19; 770, Fig. XIX.24):<br />

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