Gradeshnitsa tablets

The Gradeshnitsa tablets (Bulgarian: Плочката от Градешница) or plaques are clay artefacts with incised marks. They were unearthed in 1969 near the village of Gradeshnitsa in the Vratsa Province of north-western Bulgaria. Steven Fischer has written that "the current opinion is that these earliest Balkan symbols appear to comprise a decorative or emblematic inventory with no immediate relation to articulate speech." That is, they are neither logographs (whole-word signs depicting one object to be spoken aloud) nor phonographs (signs holding a purely phonetic or sound value)."[1] The tablets are dated to the 4th millennium BC and are currently preserved in the Vratsa Archeological Museum of Bulgaria.[2]

The face and the backside
of a copy of the Gradeshnitsa tablet

See also

Further reading
  • Ivan Raikinski (ed.), Catalogue of the Vratsa Museum of History, 1990.

References
  1. Fischer, Steven Roger (2003). History of Writing. Reaktion Books. p. 24. ISBN 9781861891679. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  2. The Gradeshnitsa Tablets


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