The Dispilio Tablet

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden tablet bearing inscribed markings, unearthed during George Hourmouziadis's excavations of Dispilio in Greece, and carbon 14-dated to 5202 (± 123) BC.[1] It was discovered in 1993 in a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island[2] near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kastoria in Kastoria, Western Macedonia, Greece.