Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field
Dussaud observed that the first tablet differs in technique from the rest, a graffito cut after firing, and Jullian…
Dussaud observed that the first tablet differs in technique from the rest, a graffito cut after firing, and Jullian read some signs as late Latin cursive, so the corpus may not be homogeneous.
What it means
Key questionDo the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?
4 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Still possiblewas 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
—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 2
Autour des inscriptions de Glozel
SRCDussaud 1927
Hans-Rudolf Hitz et l'écriture de Glozel
SRCFerryn 2015
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Dussaud observed that the first tablet differs in technique from the rest, a graffito cut after firing, and Jullian… [Evidence EVD0DEDYS2549MX]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYS2549MX
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title = {Dussaud observed that the first tablet differs in technique from the rest, a graffito cut after firing, and Jullian…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDYS2549MX},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYS2549MX}
}