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phaistos

Disk of Phaistos font.

A font that contains all the symbols of the famous Disc of Phaistos, together with a LaTeX package. The disc was ‘printed’ by stamping the wet clay with some sort of punches, probably around 1700 BCE.

There are those who believe that this Cretan script was used to ‘write’ Greek (it is known, for example, that the rather later Cretan Linear B script was used to write Greek), but arguments for other languages have been presented. Given that the disc is the only known example of the script, it seems unlikely that a decipherment will ever be confirmed.

The author is Apostolos Syropoulos. The package is Copyright © 2004 Apostolos Syropoulos.

License: lppl Version: 1.0 Catalogued: 2006-11-08

- Visit
  - Visit a nearby CTAN:/fonts/archaic/phaistos. If this fails, try Cambridge.
  - Visit Cambridge:/fonts/archaic/phaistos
- Download
  - Download from a nearby CTAN (automatically identified).
  - Download from Cambridge.
- Documentation
  - Read documentation for this package from: glyphTable.pdf.
- Distributions
  - This package is included in TeX Live.
  - This package is included in MikTeX.