Phaistos
Proper noun
Meaning
Phaistos
An ancient Minoan city in southern Crete prefecture, in modern Greece.
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Criticised by W.H.D. Rouse, "The Double Axe and the Labyrinth" The Journal of Hellenic Studies 21 (1901), pp. 268-274, noting the reappearance of the same inscribed symbols at the newly discovered palace a Phaistos (p. 273).
Broadly contemporary coins from Phaistos show the form under which he was worshiped: a youth sits among the branches of a tree, with a cockerel on his knees.
In Scripta Minoa I, citation which appeared in 1909, he explained that the discovery of the Phaistos Disk in July 1908 had caused him to pull the book from the presses so that he could include the disk by permission, as it had not yet been published.