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THE PHAESTOS DISK: ITS CYPRIOTE ORIGIN. 
By A. Rowe, 
Author of “An Ancient Egyptian Coffin in the 
Australian Museum,”’ etc. 
[Read August 15, 1919.] 
Puates.XVI. ro XXII. 
seventeenth century m.c. It is a disk of refined clay, e 
1 in. in thickness and 64 in. in diameter, and is covered wit 
_ impressed by means of specially engraved stamps, so that each 
i oe hieroglyph is always exactly similar to others of its 
th d in detail and appearance. Attention must be drawn to 
: e important fact that the clay used is not Cretan ; this was 
o een QoUUE- XXE. Meo. €. p. 94d hi has kindly 
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