Phaestus

Phaestus, ancient city of south Crete, the site of a Minoan palace (see CRETE) destroyed in about 1400 BC. The clay tablet found there in 1908, known as the Phaestus disc, apparently dates from early in the second millennium and is inscribed on both sides with pictographic writing, otherwise unknown but almost certainly syllabic, running from left to right. The script does not seem to relate to Linear A or B, and it is not known whether the disc originated in Crete or what its purpose was.