The inscription was discovered in 1928, on the wall of a
rock shelter near the village of
Sitovo, close to
Plovdiv,
Bulgaria. It was first documented by amateur archaeologist Alexander Peev. The inscription is in two lines which are long. The written signs are tall. The inscription has been tentatively dated to between 300 and 100 BCE. In 1943, Peev was executed by firing squad on suspicion of sending a coded message to the Soviet Union. He had sent an example of the text to Soviet archaeologists, in the hope that they could decipher its meaning. The inscription was published in 1950 by Z. R. Morfova. Peev was posthumously awarded the
Order of Lenin for his resistance efforts against the Bulgarian government. ==Possible translations==