Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

The letter forms on the first tablets match fifth-century Phoenician rather than the archaic script a Neolithic…

The letter forms on the first tablets match fifth-century Phoenician rather than the archaic script a Neolithic ancestor would resemble, and Iberian-type signs appeared only after Iberian publications reached Morlet.

Supported0

What it means

Key questionDo the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?

4 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onSigns copied from alphabet tables without linguistic order

Supports2 for, none against

Still possibleunchanged

Next steps 3

Transcribe the 44 legible tablets of Morlet's Corpus (pp. 69-90, MOM scan) into a sign-occurrence table keyed to Morlet's 111 sign numbers, with line and position, and publish it as a dataset.

~16 h

On: Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?

—not judged

Transcribe Morlet's Corpus tablets into a sign-occurrence table and rerun Crawford's test against natural-language and random-alphabet null models.

~24 h

On: Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?

—not judged

Repeat Crawford's 1977 test on the full transcription: sign-frequency rank curve, conditional entropy and repeated n-gram counts, compared with natural-language controls and a null model of random draws from Phoenician and Iberian sign tables.

~8 h

On: Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?

—not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

Sources 3

Autour des inscriptions de Glozel

Dussaud 1927

SRC

Chronologie de Glozel

Pradenne 1927

SRC

Note sur les inscriptions de Glozel

Isserlin 1976

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). The letter forms on the first tablets match fifth-century Phoenician rather than the archaic script a Neolithic… [Evidence EVD0DEDYA14718D]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYA14718D

@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0dedya14718d,
  title     = {The letter forms on the first tablets match fifth-century Phoenician rather than the archaic script a Neolithic…},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDYA14718D},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYA14718D}
}