# Every graph on a hieroglyphic seal face belongs to the script's graphic system, including motifs CHIC set aside as…

> Still possible: Every graph on a hieroglyphic seal face belongs to the script's graphic system, including motifs CHIC set aside as ornament.

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# Every graph on a hieroglyphic seal face belongs to the script's graphic system, including motifs CHIC set aside as…

Every graph on a hieroglyphic seal face belongs to the script's graphic system, including motifs CHIC set aside as ornament.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Excluded seal motifs fill the slots of recognised signs within sign groups more often than a shuffled null predicts.
- Some excluded motifs turn up on newly excavated clay documents alongside signs.

## What would rule it out

- Excluded motifs are distributed on seal faces independently of the signs, as decoration would be.
- Excluded motifs never appear on administrative clay even as the clay corpus grows.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The 2023 INSCRIBE study found that some motifs CHIC excluded occupy the positions and combinations of recognised signs…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEB69NE02A/the-2023-inscribe-study-found-that-some-motifs-chic-excluded)

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FOR

[Low frequencies make it impossible to chart the distribution of many seal graphs, so whether each is decorative…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEB6VYMPP3/low-frequencies-make-it-impossible-to-chart-the-distribution)

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AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Which marks on the hieroglyphic seals are writing, and which are ornament?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWSVXAX3N/which-marks-on-the-hieroglyphic-seals-are-writing-and-which)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Every graph on a hieroglyphic seal face belongs to the script's graphic system, including motifs CHIC set aside as… [Answer ANS0DEE9BBE5B9Q]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEE9BBE5B9Q
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