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Do the Dispilio tablet, the Gradešnica plaque and the Karanovo seal belong to the same sign tradition as the Vinča pottery marks?

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The Gradešnica plaque is early Chalcolithic, the Karanovo seal belongs to the later Karanovo VI horizon, and the Dispilio tablet is a Greek lakeside find of 5260 ± 40 BC; the Danube script literature treats all three as one script with the Vinča pottery marks⁠[1]⁠[2]⁠[3]. Owens, reviewing them as an Aegean epigrapher, found no demonstrable connection between them or to the Aegean scripts⁠[4]. The Dispilio marks have never been published, so for that object the question cannot yet be asked⁠[3].

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