# The inscribed clay tablets of Glozel

> About 100 flat fired-clay tablets, most inscribed on one face with six or seven lines of alphabet-like signs cut before firing, dug up by Morlet and…

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**ART** 0DEDRP2ESA51·Artifact · object

# The inscribed clay tablets of Glozel

PhotographPublic domainFound 1925 to 1936

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The inscribed clay tablets of Glozel: drawings of inscriptions on stone, bone and pebble (Reinach 1928, plate 5)

About 100 flat fired-clay tablets, most inscribed on one face with six or seven lines of alphabet-like signs cut before firing, dug up by Morlet and Fradin between 1925 and 1936. Their sign sequences are the only material for any reading; their TL dates run from the Iron Age to the 1920s.

Salomon Reinach, 1925. Public domain

## Copies 2

**Scan of morlet's corpus des inscriptions (1969 printing)** Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Bibliothèque · tpsalomonreinach.mom.fr · In copyright (Morlet died 1965); made available by the MOM Reinach portal, which notes the volume is not part of the Reinach bequestPrimary source: [Glozel: Corpus des inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK4A3NFH6/glozel-corpus-des-inscriptions)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://tpsalomonreinach.mom.fr/s/TAPReinach/item/19226)

**Drawings of inscriptions on stone, bone and pebble (reinach 1928, plate 5)** Salomon Reinach · commons.wikimedia.org · Public domainPrimary source: [Éphémérides de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJPR8F26G/ephemerides-de-glozel)1 step from the original

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## Where it is kept

[Musée de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0DEDKXWVC3XD/musee-de-glozel) · Museum

## Sources 4

- [Glozel: Corpus des inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK4A3NFH6/glozel-corpus-des-inscriptions)_SRC_
- [Les tablettes inscrites de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHS3DCJ7S/les-tablettes-inscrites-de-glozel)_SRC_
- [Résumé des recherches effectuées à Glozel entre 1983 et 1990, sous l'égide du ministère de la Culture](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ8461BM1/resume-des-recherches-effectuees-a-glozel-entre-1983-et-1990)_SRC_
- [The Scientific Analyses of Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK60WJEK6/the-scientific-analyses-of-glozel)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The inscribed clay tablets of Glozel [Artifact ART0DEDRP2ESA51]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DEDRP2ESA51
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Key

**ART** 0DEDRP2ESA51

Kind

Object

Held by

Musée de Glozel (Fradin family); a few pieces seized in 1928 or sampled since are in institutional hands

Dated

Found 1925 to 1936; TL: c. 600 BC to AD 1945 depending on the tablet

Licence

Public domain

Place

[Musée de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0DEDKXWVC3XD/musee-de-glozel)

Part of

[Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)

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