Theory of The Phaistos disk

Photograph 1.

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When I'm writing about the Phaistos disk, I must say that this text is only the guess about the purpose of the Phaistos disk, and it might be not so dramatic as many people think. The reason for that artifact is probably hiding the messages between the kings or priests.  The simplest explanation for this plate is not crypto-plate. It might be the orders, how the priests must act when they performed the rituals in the front of the people.


The priest couldn't ask anybody help when he performed his rituals, and that was the reason because they needed orders, what to do, and this was the reason, why those disks are made. The orders to the priests were covered as the art. And that was the reason, why that nice looking artifact is found from in the ruins of temples.


The purpose of this spectacular artifact from the past is probably the code disk, what has been used for coding the messages. The use of the code disks is very easy. There are normally two plates, what makes two rings of the letters. When the coder wanted to make the coded message, he turned those plates to the position, what he wanted, and after that, the replacing marks can be written with special system, what can open by the person who knows the position of those disks.

(Photograph 2)

Those disks were used for hiding secret messages before mechanical Enigma-machines and computers. That is the most common guess, what the Phaistos disk could be. As you probably see, the code disk does not always contain the normal letters, and that is why the cryptologists will earn their salaries. Those code disks are sometimes coding for special markings like hieroglyphics.


When we are talking about this ancient Egyptian writing, the hieroglyphs what is used in the cryptology are not necessary same than the hieroglyphs inside the Pyramids are, and they might make only for hiding some secret messages between two persons. But the use of this Phaistos disk is probably the little bit different than normal code plates. The surface of the code plate might be made the papyrus or something else material, what was easy to destroy.


This disk is probably the mold, what is used for making other plates, or the surface of that plate was used for rubbing some carbon against the papyrus, what made the copy of the surface for some practical use, like in the letters between the kings. The normal persons should not ever be seen what the kings spoke together.  That was the reason, why those plates used for hiding the messages. Those plates were normally stored inside the temples, where the "magic" covered those communications or cryptological equipment from the superstitious people. And of course, those code plates were used special makings to cover the secrets of the kings who lived over 2000 years ago.

Photograps


Photo2  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Discos_Phaitos_Umzeichnung.png/1280px-Discos_Phaitos_Umzeichnung.png

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc