Pages for tablet S “Great Washington” have been completely reworked. A photo page—displaying large photos, created by combining the detailed views from the Smithsonian—has been added, as well as an svg page.

Tablet S has suffered a great deal, including burn damage, as well as being reworked for use in a canoe. As a result the edges have been cut and there are large illegible sections cutting across the lines (particularly on side a). Barthel omitted these illegible sections and simply arranged legible sections together on lines with intervening (short) blanks. When RR.org transferred Barthel’s drawings to the web, they cut these lines into suitably sized chunks, but paid no particular attention to these illegible sections. What’s more is that Barthel’s coding notes these sections merely with “?” and without the usual designation of an estimate of the number of illegible glyphs. Since RR.org rewrite Barthel’s “?” as “000!” this gives the misleading impression that there is only a single illegible glyph between the legible sections. So for example typical codings of line 5 on side a might be shown as:
…354-000-007-000-200-000-280…

giving the impression that there are only single illegible glyphs between “354” and “007”, between “007” and “200”, and between “200” and “280”. In fact, in the latter two cases this seems correct. In either of those cases, there are only a few millimeters space. But between “354” and “007” there are several centimeters of intervening space.
A final problem is that many glyphs are hard to make out, and may not be accurately represented by Barthel’s drawings. Thus some of the places where RR.org chose to cut Barthel’s lines may not in fact be between glyphs, as comparison with Fischer’s drawings show.

In order to lessen the likelihood of mistakes, I have rearranged the glyph images completely. I have added reasonably large blank spaces for the illegible sections, and generally tried to accomodate breaks in the line images, so that they fall in places where both Barthel and Fischer agree that they are between glyphs. I have also used an ellipsis ‘link’ (“…”) to indicate in the coding where neighboring codes are unknown. (The same was done on Tablet Y, where each ‘line’ represents merely a fragment of a longer line.)