# 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…

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# 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 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 genuine but unidentified script or notation](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDWYSRG8FK/a-genuine-but-unidentified-script-or-notation)

Bears onnone for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## 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 2

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

Crawford 1977

SRC

[Note sur les inscriptions de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ51DB792/note-sur-les-inscriptions-de-glozel)

Isserlin 1976

SRC

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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
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