# 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…

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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.

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[None of these.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDWZXQ8YCG/none-of-these)

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

[Autour des inscriptions de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJP4XXMKB/autour-des-inscriptions-de-glozel)

Dussaud 1927

SRC

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

Ferryn 2015

SRC

## Cite it

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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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