The Law of Gortyn

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The Great Inscription of Gortyna is discovered in 1884: four stone columns in the Doric dialect, where the civil law of Gortyn was engraved in boustrophedon script (bi-directional / alternation writing direction per line). Later, parts of the rest eight columns were found, some of them embedded on walls of houses in the village of Agii Deka, thus completing the puzzle of the Law of Gortys. The twelve columns (deltas) of Gortyn had about 640 verses, 605 of which have been found. The very progressive laws refer to 450BC and were inspired by Minoan elements. The Law of Gortyna is the oldest surviving law in ancient Greece.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gortyn_code
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Coordinates:   35°3'47"N   24°56'48"E
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