# 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…

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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.

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## What it means

Key question[Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)

4 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[A Celtic language in an Etruscan-derived alphabet (Hitz)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDWX9E5ZQ3/a-celtic-language-in-an-etruscan-derived-alphabet-hitz)

Counts against1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

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?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)

**—** not judged

2

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?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)

**—** not judged

3

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?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)

**—** not judged

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

## Sources 3

[Glozel artifacts (Wikipedia)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKMG0NXP9/glozel-artifacts-wikipedia)

contributors 2026

SRC

[Hans-Rudolf Hitz et l'écriture de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKKVED623/hans-rudolf-hitz-et-lecriture-de-glozel)

Ferryn 2015

SRC

[Les tablettes inscrites de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHS3DCJ7S/les-tablettes-inscrites-de-glozel)

Crawford 1977

SRC

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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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