View of sandstone blocks at the bottom of the floor on the left of the wall Sandstone blocks with written chiselled laws carved into the wall of the archway behind the amphitheatre City law of Gortys carved in stone Gortyn law book Large inscription, written in Doric dialect alternately from left to right and right to left, oldest discovered legal text in Europe, Gortyna, Crete, Greece, Europe
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View of sandstone blocks at the bottom of the floor on the left of the wall Sandstone blocks with written chiselled laws carved into the wall of the archway behind the amphitheatre City law of Gortys carved in stone Gortyn law book Large inscription, written in Doric dialect alternately from left to right and right to left, oldest discovered legal text in Europe, Gortyna, Crete, Greece, Europe

Date

May 17, 2024

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Frank Schneider

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