U+101FC "𐇼" Phaistos Disc Sign Wavy Band Unicode Character

U+101FC "𐇼" Phaistos Disc Sign Wavy Band is one of the 45 distinct symbols found on the mysterious Phaistos Disc, a fired clay artifact discovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete. This particular sign depicts a horizontal wavy line or band, and it appears multiple times on the disc, which is stamped with a spiral arrangement of these symbols using movable type, a technology far ahead of its time. While the Phaistos Disc has never been deciphered, and its purpose and meaning remain unknown, the inclusion of this sign in the Unicode standard preserves it as a digital character, allowing for scholarly discussion and digital reproduction of the artifact’s enigmatic script.