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Conclusions from the analysis of entropy value of the information contained in the inscription imprinted on the surface of the Phaistos disk
https://doi.org/10.60154/zeszytynaukowewsei.2023.1.1.04
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The subject of the article concerns a widely fairly well-known archaeological monument, which is a clay disk from Phaistos. It is widely believed that the disk from Phaistos is an authentic object, and that the puzzling marks imprinted on its surface, 241 in number, represent the recording of some text in some as yet undetermined natural language. Opinions questioning the authenticity of the artifact under consideration are relatively few. Also, relatively few researchers claim that the Phaistos disk does not contain any natural language text recording at all, as its original purpose was quite different, for example, it could have been a game board for some unknown game. The authors of the article decided to treat the Phaistos disk as a source of information, for which they then determined the value of its entropy. The result obtained is somewhat surprising, since the entropy value calculated by the authors for the Phaistos disk has a very similar value to the entropy of texts written in selected modern natural languages. This leads to the conclusion that it is highly probable that the Phaistos disk does indeed contain a record of some text in some natural language. On the other hand, the key issue at present remains the 100% proof of the authenticity of the artifact under consideration, for which, unfortunately, it is necessary to carry out invasive thermoluminescence tests, for which, so far, there is no permission from the authorities of the museum where the Phaistos disk is kept.
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