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Submitted by mfrincu on Wednesday, 09 September 2015 Page Views: 4069
Rock ArtSite Name: Tartaria TabletsCountry: Romania Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Orastie Nearest Village: Tartaria
Latitude: 45.942556N Longitude: 23.408432E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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mfrincu visited on 4th Sep 2015 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 The monument marks the discovery of the Tartaria Tablets. It is not placed on the actual spot where the tablets were discovered.
Three tablets dating back as far as 5500 BC have been found in 1961 alongside a skeleton near Tartaria, Alba-Iulia county. The tablets contain what is now known as the 1st written message in the history of mankind. This does not necessarily imply a written language as the tablets may have been used in shamanic rituals. One tablet is round and the others rectangular in shape with a size not exceeding few centimeters. Two of them have signs that are similar with other symbols in other language systems and one contains pictographs (animals, flora).
Exact dating of the tablets is nearly impossible as they have been exposed to high temperatures to preserve the unburnt clay. Dating was possible by analyzing the skeleton found alongside. Similar tablets have been found in Karanovo, Bulgaria but those have been dated in the III millennium BC.
The original tablets are located in the History Museum of Transylvania, Cluj. A large monolith marks the area where they have been found. It contains replicas of the tablets. The monolith is located on DN7 road between Orastie and Sebes.
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