DHA
19,1
1993
9-43
THE TABLETS OF TARTÀRIA - AN ENIGMA ? A reconsideration and further perspectives
Sorin PALIGA Université de Bucarest
The archaic bright triad, now giving light through the night of ages, dawn of history. Ch. Musu
Introduction
During the 1961 excavations at the site of Târtària, Nicolae Vlassa (then aged 27, dead prematurely in 1984) discovered three clay tablets in an early Turda§ layer. The report (published in 1963) offered less details concerning this discovery but a quite extensive comparison regarding the would-be Sumerian influences in the Vinca-Turdaç complex. Few archaeological discoveries have provoked such a world-scale polemic discussions connected to both the report and the important relations between the Orient and southeast Europe or Transylvania in prehistory.
