# Houston 2003: Has Isthmian Writing Been Deciphered?

> Stephen D. Houston, Michael D. Coe, 2003. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The main published test against the Justeson and Kaufman decipherment.

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# Has Isthmian Writing Been Deciphered?

Stephen D. Houston, Michael D. Coe, 2003. _Mexicon 25(6), pp. 151 to 161_.

Applies the Justeson and Kaufman values to the text on the back of a Teotihuacan-style stone mask of unknown provenance, about 101 glyphs and 25 new to the corpus, and finds that they do not yield a reading; concludes that Isthmian remains undeciphered.

**Cascajal block and Isthmian writing** Article0

## What it's used for here

The main published test against the Justeson and Kaufman decipherment.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[The decipherment is unproven or wrong; the corpus is too small to confirm it.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block/answers/ANS0CYBC66E4NT0/the-decipherment-is-unproven-or-wrong-the-corpus-is-too)

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[Teotihuacan-style mask with Isthmian text](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block/artifacts/ART0CYBCBAG45NP/teotihuacan-style-mask-with-isthmian-text)

ART

[Applied to the 101-glyph Teotihuacan-style mask, the values gave no reading.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block/evidence/EVD0CYBC6E802G9/applied-to-the-101-glyph-teotihuacan-style-mask-the-values)

Evidence

EVD

[Houston and Coe test the decipherment on the Teotihuacan-style mask](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block/events/EVT0CYBBWDY30KJ/houston-and-coe-test-the-decipherment-on-the-teotihuacan)

EVT

[Michael D. Coe](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block/people/FIG0CYBBS8C1PEM/michael-d-coe)

FIG

[The Cascajal block and Isthmian writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block)

The mystery article

MYS

[Has Isthmian (Epi-Olmec) writing been deciphered?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block/questions/QST0CYBBYCE2Y3M/has-isthmian-epi-olmec-writing-been-deciphered)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Houston, S. D., & Coe, M. D. (2003). Has Isthmian Writing Been Deciphered?. Mexicon 25(6), pp. 151 to 161.
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