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The use of information theory to determine the language character type of Pictish symbols

Rob Lee, 2010. Scottish Archaeological Journal 32(2), 137-176.

Builds a pictorial corpus of all Pictish symbols on stones, caves and portable objects, a catalogue of symbol types, and applies the information-theory test, concluding the symbols are words, mostly names, with some basic syntax.

MYS0CQHAB5Y2G59 · mystery · click to copyMPictish symbol stonesArticledoi: 10.3366/saj.2010.0014Checked against the original0

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Source for the corpus construction and the names conclusion.

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Lee, R. (2010). The use of information theory to determine the language character type of Pictish symbols. Scottish Archaeological Journal 32(2), 137-176. https://doi.org/10.3366/saj.2010.0014
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