Many people have claimed to have deciphered the Phaistos Disc. The claims may be categorized into linguistic decipherments, identifying the language of the inscription, and non-linguistic decipherments. A purely ideographical reading is semantic but not linguistic in the strict sense: While a semantic decipherment may reveal the intended meaning of the symbols in the inscription, it would not allow us to identify the underlying words or their language. A large part of the claims are clearly pseudoscientific, if not bordering on the esoteric. Linguists are doubtful whether the inscription is sufficiently long to be unambiguously interpreted. It is possible that one of these decipherments is correct, and that, without further material in the same script, we will never know which. Mainstream consensus tends towards the assumption of a syllabic script, possibly mixed with ideogram, like the known scripts of the epoch (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Anatolian hieroglyphs, Linear B). Some approaches attempt to establish a connection with known scripts, either the roughly contemporary Cretan hieroglyphs or Linear A native to Crete, or Egyptian or Anatolian hieroglyphics. Solutions postulating an independent Aegean script have also been proposed. Linguistic interpretations Greek George Hempl (1911) (interpretation as Ionic Greek, syllabic writing) side A first; reading inwards; side A begins ... Hempls readings of side A: A-po-su-la-r ke-si-po e-pe-t e-e-se a-po-le-is-tu te-pe-ta-po. (Lo, Xipho the prophetess dedicates spoils from a spoiler of the prophetess.) Te-u-s, a-po-ku-ra. (Zeus guard us.) Vi-ka-na a-po-ri-pi-na la-ri-si-ta a-po-ko-me-nu so-to. (In silence put aside the most dainty portions of the still unroasted animal.) A-te-ne-Mi-me-ra pu-l. (Athene Minerva, be gracious.) A-po-vi-k. (Silence!) A-po-te-te-na-ni-si tu-me. (The victims have been put to death.) A-po-vi-k. (Silence!) F.M. Stawell (1911) (interpretation as Homeric Greek, syllabic writing); side B first; reading inward: side A begins ... Not Ionic; B30 is non-sigmatic ; B6 is , with four long alphas. Steven R. Fischer (1988) (interpretation as a Greek dialect, syllabic writing); side A first; reading inwards; 02-12 reads E-qe 'hear ye'.[See book Glyph Breaker (1997) for full account] D. Ohlenroth (1996) (interpretation as a Greek dialect, alphabetic writing); side A first; reading outwards; numerous homophonic signs B. Schwarz (1959) (interpretation as Mycenean Greek, syllabic writing) side A first; reading inwards. comparison with Linear B as starting point. A. Martin (2000) (interpretation as a Greek-Minoan bilingual text, alphabetic writing) reading outwards; reads only side A as Greek and says side B is Minoan K. & K. Massey (1998) (partial decipherment