Re: International Conference on the Phaistos Disk

On Jul 8, 2:27 pm, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 7, 9:53 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In London, Oct 31 - Nov 1.

http://www.minervamagazine.com/images/phaistos.pdf

Thanks for the information. I just sent this e-mail
to the Minerva magazine:

Ladies and Gentlemen,
having read your announcement I like to make a short
statement. I believe in the translation of the pair of disks
by Derk Ohlenroth of Tübingen, while I don't agree on his
historical interpretation and rather speak of a Tiryns disk
and an Elaia disk, gold disks worn on the shoulders by
Eponymous Tiryns and his successors. The Tiryns disk
would represent Tiryns, the rosette in the center the
former Circular Building - at the base a big rosette of
blocks are still extant -, in the building a Zeus shrine.
The rosette of 8 petals is at the same time the emphatic
Ss of Ss-Ey-R Sseyr (Middle Helladic) Sseus (Doric) Zeus
(Greek), a solar symbol, and a lunisolar calendar, variation
of a very ancient calendar of Göbekli Tepe. A year of
Göbekli Tepe had 12 months of 30 days, plus 5 and
occasionally 6 days, while 63 continuous periods of 30
days yield 1,890 days and correspond to 64 lunations.
Variation on the Tiryns disk: a year has eight periods of
45 days, plus 5 and occasionally 6 days, while 21 periods
of 45 days yield 945 days and correspond to 32 lunations.
The Lycaian Sseyr or Zeus mentioned in the spiral text
has been confirmed recently: there is a pre-Greek altar
on top of Mount Lycaion, found together with a crystal seal.
The banning formula along the margin is an equivalent of
the wall around Tiryns, enforced by the four curses cast
on intruders. Eponymous Tiryns would have been a ruler
of Tiryns who came from Arcadia, introduced the olive tree
earlier than hitherto assumed, and thus overcame a famine.
He was the lion-wolf-dog-bee-king --- strong, vigilant, and
industrious. He was honored as King Laertes in Homer.
Have a look at the many soldiers on the Tiryns disk:
they guard the wall and the entrance. Their distribution
can be seen as the Argos Eye: a dot in the center for
the king, dots (often six dots) along the margin, a sign
found on the front and cheeks of an attentively watching
plaster head from Mykenae. This just a brief introduction
into my view of the disk, which would be a clay model
after the hypothetical gold disks that are still waiting
to be excavated, perhaps in downton Tiryns, or in the
not yet dug up lower parts of the limestone hill?
I won't be able to participate in your conference,
out of financial reasons merely, but if one or the other
scholar should be interested in my work, he or she
may contact me via e-mail.

Sincerely, Franz Gnaedinger, Zurich, Switzerland

Of course I got no reply from Minerva. Eisenberg,
a dealer of antiquities, editor-in-chief of Minerva,
published his article on the disk being a fake in
Minerva, now he organizes the conference on the
disk, and of course he favors people who support
his view. But we know that the humanities are
heavily biased. Some people can publish every
nonsense, others not even their best insights.
On the same day I read about the disk being
a fake I read in a newspaper that Jim Morrison
may have faked his own death. On the same day
I lost an archaeological object and won back
the singer of the Doors. Now if somebody undertook
the labor of proving Göbekli Tepe another hoax
we might hope of getting back Elvis ...
.

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