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QuestionWhere it stands
Most likelyThe decipherment is unproven or wrong; the corpus is too small to confirm it
Open3 answers, none ahead
Most likelyThe signs are a ritual arrangement of sacred images in Olmec iconography, not a record of language
Most likelyThe block should be rotated 90 degrees and read in columns, left to right and top to bottom
Most likelyThe block and its incisions are ancient Olmec work
Most likelyThe block belongs with the San Lorenzo phase material, about 1000 to 900 BC