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The Rongorongo of Easter Island

Item G: The Small Santiago Tablet

 
 

Numerical transliteration

 
 

Barthel's tracings:

Lines 1-3 4-6 7-8
Recto Gr1-3 Gr4-6 Gr7-8
Verso Gv1-3 Gv4-6 Gv7-8

 
 

General Aspect

Small Santiago Tablet , recto, 6k jpg
Recto
 
Small Santiago Tablet , verso, 5.9jpg
Verso
 
     Line 6 of the verso of the Small Santiago tablet contains a sequence of signs (Gv6:10..130) which Nikolai Butinov and Yuri Knorozov have identified as compatible with a short genealogy. Their finding was published in Russian in 1956 in Sovetskaja Ehtnografija and in English in 1957 in the Journal of the Polynesian Society. It has been ignored by all would-be decipherers. Yet, if they are correct, sign 76 is a taxogram for patronymics, a discovery as important as that of the function of cartouches in Ancient Egyptian.
 

Photograph

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