Rongorongo text Z

Rongorongo text Z

Text Z of the rongorongo corpus, also known as "Poike," may be one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.

Other names

Z is the standard designation, continuing from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) numbers it among the imitative pieces made for tourists as T4.

Location

"Museo Nacional de Historia Natural," Santiago. Catalog # 12060.

Physical description

A small light-weight piece, 10.7 × 5.8 × 2.7 cm, of unknown wood and darkened with age. One end has been beveled to a sharp edge, the other, broken off and smoothed. Side a is badly cracked. It is the smallest intact piece.

Provenance

In 1937 José Paté discovered this tablet by the foundations of the ruins of a stone house near ahu Mahatua, the home village of Metoro Tau‘a Ure, Bishop Jaussen's informant, at the base of Poike Volcano. Paté gave it to Father Sebastian, who then donated it to the Santiago museum in 1938.

The authenticity of the piece is immediately suspect because it is not boustrophedon, typical of early forgeries. However, Fischer (1997) suspects that it may be a palimpsest, that someone had carved an imitative inscription over an authentic but by then illegible text, and that it was somehow forgotten rather than sold.

Text

Fischer (1997) reports that in strong light four lines of imitative (crude, non-boustrophedon) script are visible on both sides, but that "in indirect light there are fainter traces of smaller rongorongo glyphs in six or seven lines on each side." The smaller hand implies a second scribe. Even the cruder glyphs are only partially legible, with some 55 "trace elements" remaining.

;BarthelBarthel did not transcribe this text.

;FischerFischer does not believe the legible text to be genuine, and was unable to transcribe the underlying text.

References

* BARTHEL, Thomas S. 1958. "Grundlagen zur Entzifferung der Osterinselschrift" (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script). Hamburg : Cram, de Gruyter.
* FISCHER, Steven Roger. 1997. "RongoRongo, the Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts." Oxford and N.Y.: Oxford University Press.


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