Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

No Celtic epigrapher has accepted Hitz's readings, which require 40 to 50 ligature and geminate signs assigned case by…

No Celtic epigrapher has accepted Hitz's readings, which require 40 to 50 ligature and geminate signs assigned case by case, and the only statistical study found the sequences unlike natural-language text.

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 onA Celtic language in an Etruscan-derived alphabet (Hitz)

Counts against1 for, 1 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

Glozel artifacts (Wikipedia)

contributors 2026

SRC

Hans-Rudolf Hitz et l'écriture de Glozel

Ferryn 2015

SRC

Les tablettes inscrites de Glozel

Crawford 1977

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). No Celtic epigrapher has accepted Hitz's readings, which require 40 to 50 ligature and geminate signs assigned case by… [Evidence EVD0DEDYARQQM9X]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYARQQM9X

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  title     = {No Celtic epigrapher has accepted Hitz's readings, which require 40 to 50 ligature and geminate signs assigned case by…},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDYARQQM9X},
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