René Dussaud
Louvre curator of Near Eastern antiquities and Semitic epigrapher, editor of the Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, who argued in 1927 that the Glozel alphabet was copied from late Phoenician and that the tablets were modern; convicted of libel against Fradin in 1932 with a symbolic penalty. 1868–1958.
Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin fieldRené Dussaud is french orientalist and epigrapher (1868-1958), curator at the Louvre, who made the epigraphic case that the Glozel inscriptions are forgeries. (1868–1958), and appears in the record of Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field as louvre curator of Near Eastern antiquities and Semitic epigrapher, editor of the Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, who argued in 1927 that the Glozel alphabet was copied from late Phoenician and that the tablets were modern; convicted of libel against Fradin in 1932 with a symbolic penalty.
Two events on the site involve Dussaud, from Dussaud argues the alphabet was copied from late Phoenician (1927) to The fraud case against Émile Fradin is dismissed (26 Jun 1931).
Three questions rest in part on what Dussaud did or said, among them “Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?”, which stands open: 4 answers, none ahead.
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Mysteries Department. (2026). René Dussaud [Person FIG0DEDME1N8V0N]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDME1N8V0N
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