Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

Isserlin found the closest partial resemblance of the Glozel signs in the Iberian scripts, which are semi-syllabic…

Isserlin found the closest partial resemblance of the Glozel signs in the Iberian scripts, which are semi-syllabic, and Crawford allowed a syllabary as one reading of his negative result.

Speculative0

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 genuine but unidentified script or notation

Bears onnone for, none against

Still possiblewas No evidence yet

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 2

Les tablettes inscrites de Glozel

Crawford 1977

SRC

Note sur les inscriptions de Glozel

Isserlin 1976

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Isserlin found the closest partial resemblance of the Glozel signs in the Iberian scripts, which are semi-syllabic… [Evidence EVD0DEDYRBWQSGS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYRBWQSGS

@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0dedyrbwqsgs,
  title     = {Isserlin found the closest partial resemblance of the Glozel signs in the Iberian scripts, which are semi-syllabic…},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDYRBWQSGS},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYRBWQSGS}
}