An inscription on a double-headed axe, found by Spyridon Marinatos, has 15 signs, which are probably Cretan hieroglyphic, though some point to similarities with signs on the Phaistos disk. The first word may be I-Da, as in Mount Psiloritis, if one uses the same values as Linear B, but with so few characters, there’s no way of knowing for sure the inscriber’s intention. Dated to around the middle of the 17th century BC, it was found alongside dozens more double-headed axes and swords, including what is thought to be the longest votive sword in Europe, at over a metre in length.
