# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eUfOBMB8w8 @ThePrehistoryGuys 2024-12-09 @JorgeStolfi 1 month ago (edited) Here is another theory... Some idling inhabitant of Proto-Dispilio, perhaps even a child, found a piece of wood that looked vaguely like the head of a lynx or lioness: squarish, with two ears on top, and an eye on the side. So she or he decided to enhance the likeness by covering it with short scratches, suggesting hair. Note that the scratches cover the top and right side, and part of the left side. The bottom, however, seems to be unprocessed and to have a layer of some sort of cement. Perhaps it was mounted on a post, or on some a ledge or niche in a wall? Reply @JorgeStolfi 1 month ago Note that Prof George Hourmouziadis, who seem to have been the main proponent of the "writing" theory, died in 2013 at age 80, one year before the publication of the paper by Facorellis that lists him as a co-author. Thus the claims about "writing" may have been included in that paper only out of respect for his memory. 2024-12-02 @JorgeStolfi 1 month ago (edited) That tablet could be a tally board where the owner marked significant feats -- big fishes caught, gazelles hunted, enemies slain, whatever ( Un catalogo egli รจ che ho fatt'io... ). It would not have been meant for accounting purposes, since that would require a developed counting system and/or a grouping of the marks into larger units; but only as an ego massaging tool that the owner would fondly display and/or contemplate. Like the notches on gun handles, tally marks on fighter planes, etc. It could also be a tally of months or years. Perhaps the owner added one scratch at each full moon, for a visual reminder of his/her age... 2024-11-30 @JorgeStolfi 2 months ago (edited) That "replica" on display in the hut was obviously not meant to be a reproduction of THE Dispilio tablet, but only a simulation of A typical tablet that every proto-Dispilian family would have in their living room, with some uplifting message like Oog Bless This Home or Keep Calm and Carry On or IF you can keep your head... 2024-11-30 @JorgeStolfi 2 months ago Whether those marks are "script" of just decoration, they obviously were not accidental, like the tool marks on a cutting board or work table. The latter will be mostly overlapping and unevenly concentrated, mostly near the center and hardly at all near the edges. The marks on the (real) Dispilio tablet were deliberately made with care to avoid overlapping and to fill the whole visible surface. They also seem to be strikingly regular in length, width, and shape. And the two "horizontal lines" seem to be real and not an illusion.