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Sports CROATIA Baška Tablet by Mate and Roko Baška tablet (Croatian: Bašćanska ploča) is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the Glagolitic language, dating from the year 1100. SIGNIFICANCE HISTORY The Baška tablet was discovered by scholars in 1851 in the paving of the Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor near Baška on the island of Krk.Since 1934 the original has been kept in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb. DIMENSIONS It weighs about 800 kilos, it’s 99.5 cm high, 199 cm wide, 7.5 to 9 cm thick and its made of white limestone. DESCRIPTION The inscribed stone slab records King Zvonimir’s donation of a piece of land to a Benedictine abbey in the time of abbot Držiha. The second half of the inscription tells how Abbot Dobrovit built the church along with nine monks. The inscription is written in the Glagolitic script, exhibiting features of Church Slavonic of Croatian recession. It provides the only example of transition from Glagolitic of the rounded Macedonian type to the angular Croatian alphabet. The name Croatia and adjective Croatian are mentioned on the tablet for the first time in the Croatian language. Despite the fact of not being the oldest Croatian Glagolitic monument and in despite the fact that it was not written in the pure Croatian vernacular – it has nevertheless been referred to as “the jewel of the Croatian language “ and “the baptismal certificate” of Croatian literary culture. It features a vaguely damaged ornamental string pattern, the Croatian interlace (troplet).