ART0DEDTJ8GEDK4·Artifact · tablet
The Tărtăria tablets
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Three small clay tablets, two rectangular and one round (6 cm across), two of them pierced, with signs on one face only, found by Nicolae Vlassa in 1961 in a pit at Tărtăria with 26 figurines, a shell bracelet and the bones of a woman aged about 50. The pit's bones date to 5370 to 5140 cal BC; the tablets themselves have never been dated directly and their stratigraphy was never published. The best-known and most disputed objects in the Vinča sign debate.
Unknown (Wikimedia Commons upload, retouched 2007). CC BY-SA 3.0 (uploader's licence; original photographer not recorded on Commons)
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Photograph of the round tabletUnknown (Wikimedia Commons upload, retouched 2007) · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 3.0 (uploader's licence; original photographer not recorded on Commons)1 step from the original
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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Tărtăria tablets [Artifact ART0DEDTJ8GEDK4]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDTJ8GEDK4
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title = {The Tărtăria tablets},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Artifact, catalog key ART0DEDTJ8GEDK4},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDTJ8GEDK4}
}