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The Rongorongo of Easter Island

Item R:  The Atua-Mata-Riri Tablet

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Numerical transliteration

 
 

Barthel's tracings:

Lines	1-3	4-6	7-9
Side a	Ra1-3	Ra4-6	Ra7-8
Side b	Rb1-3	Rb4-6	Rb7-9

 
 

General Aspect

Recto

Verso

 

This tablet is so called after the opening words of the reading which Ure Vaeiko gave of it to William Thomson. Side a has eight lines and side b nine, but the last is so worn that none of its signs are legible.

 

Photographs

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