Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field
Hitz's alphabet is built from attested Lepontic and Etruscan letter forms and yields readings such as nemu Chlausei…
Hitz's alphabet is built from attested Lepontic and Etruscan letter forms and yields readings such as nemu Chlausei that he compares with Gaulish nemeton.
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)
Supports1 for, 1 against
Still possibleunchanged
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
—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
—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
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 3
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Hitz's alphabet is built from attested Lepontic and Etruscan letter forms and yields readings such as nemu Chlausei… [Evidence EVD0DEDYBEBK6AZ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYBEBK6AZ
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title = {Hitz's alphabet is built from attested Lepontic and Etruscan letter forms and yields readings such as nemu Chlausei…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDYBEBK6AZ},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYBEBK6AZ}
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