# 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.

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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.

Speculative0

## 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)

Supports1 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

[Als man noch protokeltisch sprach: Versuch einer Entzifferung der Inschriften von Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ6WRW0J3/als-man-noch-protokeltisch-sprach-versuch-einer-entzifferung)

Hitz 1982

SRC

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

Ferryn 2015

SRC

[L'Écriture de Glozel: son déchiffrement, son authenticité](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ6B5NVRQ/lecriture-de-glozel-son-dechiffrement-son-authenticite)

Hitz 1979

SRC

## Cite it

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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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