File Gurney MSS 2.15 - Phaistos Disc

3 folders

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, Cybele and the axe-goddess: Alliterative verse, Linear B relationships and cult ritual of the Phaistos disc, Amsterdam (1992).
  • Offprints of sections of articles and other publications - mainly figures - annotated by Bowden; among those identified are: Amiet, Pierre, La Glyptique Mésopotamienne Archaïque, Paris (1980); Campbell, Joseph, The Masks of God: Creative Mythology, London (1968); Jackson, Joseph H., Pictorial Guide to the Planets, London (1965)
  • Website offprints with comments by Bowden handwritten on top: Bowden, Edgar, "Ancient Greek alliterative verse-metrics on the Phaistos Disk: an Anatolian cult of Cybele Axe-Goddess and Poseidon Hippios", and Bowden, Edgar, "Origin and meaning of the Pictish double-disc symbol".
• Correspondence from Davis, Simon (1 letter / 20 February 1994).
• Correspondence to/from Ferguson, Herbert (3 letters / 18 January 1994 - 9 April 1994).
• Correspondence from Heath-Brown, Roger (3 letters / 30 January 1998 - 4 February 1998).
• Correspondence from Hood, Martin Sinclair Frankland (3 letters / 8 May 1980 - 7 February 1994).

Notes:

• Notes on Phaistos Disc.
• Bibliographies.
• Photocopy of Davis, Simon, The Phaistos Disk and the Eteocretan Inscriptions from Psychro and Praisos, Johannesburg (1961), p. 17-20.
• Some annotated pages from booklet The Archaeological Museum of the Châtillon Region.

Offprints/photocopies:

• Bean, G. E., Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide, London (1978), p. 197.
• Best, Jan and Fred Woudhuizen (eds.), Ancient Scripts from Crete and Cyprus, Leiden (1988), p. 50-51.
• Chadwick, John, "Review: Best, Jan and Fred Woudhuizen (eds.), Ancient Scripts from Crete and Cyprus, Leiden (1988)", Antiquity 63 (238) (1989), p. 181.
• Davis, Simon, The Decipherment of the Minoan Linear A and Pictographic Scripts, Johannesburg (1967), p. 99-101.
• Davis, Simon, "The Minoan Gold Ring from Mavro Spelio: An Interpretation", Athens Annals of Archaeology 7 (1) (1974), p. 111-112.
• Davis, Simon, "The Minoan Silver Pin from Mavro Spelio: An Interpretation", Athens Annals of Archaeology 6 (3) (1973), p. 491-493.
• Davis, Simon, "The Phaistos Disk: A Hittite Spell?", JUSŪR 2 (1986), p. 103-121.
• Davis, Simon, The Phaistos Disk and the Eteocretan Inscriptions from Psychro and Praisos, Johannesburg (1961), p. ?.
• Delekat, L., "Der Diskos von Phaistos: Entwurf einer Textlesung und -deutung", Ugarit-Forschungen 11 (1979), p. 165-178.
• Duhoux, Yves, ?, p. 62-65 ("§ 16. Abréviations bibliographiques").
• Ferguson, Herbert, "An Experiment in Making an Inscribed Clay Disc Like that of Phaistos", Kadmos 17 (2) (1978), p. 170-172.
• Ferguson, Herbert, "The Phaistos Disc - Cretan or Anatolian?" (1988), article not published.
• Ferguson, Herbert, "Thoughts on Sign 24 ('Pagoda') of the Phaistos Disc" (1979), article not published.
• Plates 4-5 of the Phaistos Disc Inscription (Ferguson Format 1975).
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., "Le disque de Phaestos: essai de déchiffrement", in: Colloquium Mycenaeurn. Actes du 6e colloque international sur les textes mycéniens et égéens, tenu à Chaumont-sur-Neuchâtel, du 7 au 13 septembre 1975, Neuchâtel and Genève (1979), p. 392-393.
• Hoschek, Rudolf, "Zur Schriftrichtung beim Diskos von Phaistos", Kadmos 20 (1981), p. 85-92.
• Ipsen, Gunther, "Der Diskus von Phaistos: Ein Versuch zur Entzifferung", Indogermanische Forschungen 47 (1) (1929), p. 1-40 (only p. 18-40).
• Macalister, Robert A. S., The Philistines, Their History & Civilizations: The Schweich Lectures, London (1913).
• Matev, Georgi and Athanas Matev, "Die Entzifferung der Inschrift auf dem Diskos von Phaistos", in: Dritter Internationaler Thrakologischer Kongress zu Ehren W. Tomascheks, 2.-6. Juni 1980, Wien, Sofia (1984), vol. I, p. 260-263.
• Schachermeyr, F., Die minoische Kultur des alten Kreta, Stuttgart (1964), p. 246-247.
• ?, "The Phaistos Disc: A Fresh View for Fresh Viewers", article not published.

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