Phaistos Disc:

Correspondence:

• Correspondence to/from Bowden, Edgar (24 letters / 8 March 1995 - 20 April 2000), including Bowden’s revised chapters of his monograph: Bowden, Edgar (1992), Cybele and the axe-goddess: Alliterative verse, Linear B relationships and cult ritual of the Phaistos disc (Amsterdam: Gieben).
  • Includes offprints of sections of articles which Edgar Bowden has annotated, several of which do not give publication details:
  • Amiet, Pierre (1980), La Glyptique Mésopotamienne Archaïque (Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique).
  • Campbell, Joseph (1968), The Masks of God: Creative Mythology (London: Secker and Warburg).
  • Jackson, Joseph H. (1965), Pictorial Guide to the Planets (London: Museum Press).
  • Website offprint of webpage Bowden, Edgar, “Ancient Greek alliterative verse-metrics on the Phaistos Disk: an Anatolian cult of Cybele Axe-Goddess and Poseidon Hippios”.
  • Website offprint of webpage Bowden, Edgar, “Origin and meaning of the Pictish double-disc symbol”.
• Correspondence from Davis, Simon (1 letter / 20 February 1994).
• Correspondence from Ferguson, Herbert (3 letters / 18 January 1994 - 9 April 1994).
• Correspondence from Heath-Brown, Roger (3 letters / 30 Jan 1998 - 4 Feb 1998).
• Correspondence from (Hood?), Sinclair (3 letters / 8 May 1980 - 7 February 1994).

Notes:

• Notes on Phaistos Disc.
• Bibliographies.
• Photocopy of Simon Davis’ decipherment of the Phaistos Disc, 1961.
• Booklet on ‘The Archaeological Museum of the Châtillon Region’.

Offprints:

• Bean, G. E. (1978), Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide (London, Ernest Benn), p. 197.
• Best, Jan and Fred Woudhuizen (eds.) (1988), Ancient Scripts from Crete and Cyprus (Leiden: Brill), p. 50-51.
• Chadwick, John (1989), “Review of Best & Woudhuizen Ancient Scripts from Crete and Cyprus”, Antiquity 63, p. 181.
• Davis, Simon (1967), The Decipherment of the Minoan Linear A and Pictographic Scripts (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press), p. 99-101.
• Davis, Simon (1974), “The Minoan Gold Ring from Mavro Spelio: An Interpretation”, Athens Annals of Archaeology 7 (1), p. 111-112.
• Davis, Simon (1973), “The Minoan Silver Pin from Mavro Spelio: An Interpretation”, Athens Annals of Archaeology 6 (3), p. 491-493.
• Davis, Simon (1986), “The Phaistos Disk: A Hittite Spell?”, JUSŪR 2, p. 103-121.
• Davis, Simon (1961), The Phaistos Disk and the Eteocretan Inscriptions from Psychro and Praisos (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press).
• Delekat, L. (1979), “Der Diskos von Phaistos: Entwurf einer Textlesung und -deutung”, Ugarit-Forschungen 11, p. 165-178.
• Duhoux, Yves (?) Bibliography.
• Ferguson, Herbert (1978), “An Experiment in Making an Inscribed Clay Disc Like that of Phaistos”, Kadmos 17 (2), p. 170-172.
• Ferguson, Herbert (1988), “The Phaistos Disc - Cretan or Anatolian?”, Unpublished article.
• Ferguson, Herbert (1979), “Thoughts on Sign 24 (“Pagoda”) of the Phaistos Disc”, Unpublished article.
• Plates of the Phaistos Disc Inscription (Ferguson Format 1975).
• Georgiev, Vladimir, “Le disque de Phaestos: essai de déchittrement”.
• Hoschek, Rudolf (1981), “Zur Schriftrichtung beim Diskos von Phaistos”, Kadmos 20, p. 85-92.
• Ipsen, Gunther (1929), “Der Diskus von Phaistos: Ein Versuch zur Entzifferung”, Indogermanische Forschungen 47 (1), p. 1-40.
• Macalister, Robert A. S. (1913), The Philistines Their History & Civilizations: The Schweich Lectures (England: Publication for the British Academy by H. Milford).
• Matev, Georgi and Athanas Matev (1984), “Die Entzifferung der Inschrift auf dem Diskos von Phaistos”, Dritter Internationaler Thrakologischer Kongress.
• Schachermayr, F. (1964), Die minoische Kultur des alten Kreta (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer).
• “The Phaistos Disc: A Fresh View for Fresh Viewers”, Unpublished Article.