c. 475 BCE

The Gortyn Code

A law code of the first half of the 5th century BCE is cut in 12 columns of about 600 lines at Gortyn, Crete, in the Dorian dialect and in boustrophedon. First fragment found 1857, more in 1884. It is the longest surviving Greek inscription apart from Diogenes of Oenoanda's.