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The Phaistos Disc is a disc of fired clay from the Greek island of Crete, dating possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC). It bears a text on both sides in an unknown script and language, and its purpose and original place of manufacture remain disputed. Discovered in 1908 by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier, the disc is made of fine-grained clay, intentionally and properly fired, and is approximately cylindrical with a diameter of around 16 centimetres (6.3 inches) and a thickness of almost 2 centimetres (0.79 inches), with rounded edges. The disc is an early example of movable-type printing, with the embossed signs that comprise its inscription resulting from separate stamps that were pressed into the soft clay before firing. It has captured the imagination of amateur and professional palaeographers, and many attempts have been made to decipher the text, which comprises 241 occurrences of 45 distinct signs. The Phaistos Disc is now on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum on Crete.Artefact credit: unknown; photographed by C messier; edited by Bammesk

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List of Washington, D.C. embassies

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Anna J. Cooper Circle - intersection of 3rd and T Streets in the LeDroit Park neighborhood
Grant Circle - intersection of New Hampshire and Illinois Avenues and Varnum and 5th Streets
Pinehurst Circle - intersection of Western and Utah Avenues and 33rd and Worthington Streets
Sherman Circle - intersection of Illinois Avenue, Kansas Avenue, 7th Street, and Crittenden Street NW
~~Tenley Circle - Tenleytown.~~
Westmoreland Circle - straddling the Maryland and Washington border, at the intersection of Western Avenue, Butterworth Place, Massachusetts Avenue, Dalecarlia Parkway, and Wetherill Road.

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