Disambiguation evidence for rongorongo via surface form

"Rongorongo"


As subject (52)

Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Rongorongo".

Predicate Object
ISO15924 Roro
associatedPlace Orongo ceremonial village
associatedRitual birdman cult
conservationStatus fragile artifacts in museums
country Chile
culturalSignificance ritual use
culturalSignificance sacred text tradition
directionOfWriting reverse boustrophedon
discoveredBy Eugène Eyraud
discoveryDate 1864
ethnicGroup Rapa Nui people
firstReportedBy Eugène Eyraud
firstReportedIn letter to the Father Superior of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
firstReportedYear 1864
glyphCountApproximate around 120 basic glyphs
glyphFeatures anthropomorphic figures
glyphFeatures geometric shapes
glyphFeatures plant motifs
glyphFeatures zoomorphic figures
hasUnicodeStatus not encoded in Unicode
heldIn British Museum
heldIn Louvre Museum
heldIn Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert
heldIn Vatican Museums
instanceOf Polynesian writing system
instanceOf logographic script
instanceOf undeciphered script
instanceOf writing system
languageUsed Rapa Nui language
locatedIn Easter Island
locatedIn Easter Island
surface form: Rapa Nui
materialUsed reimiro ornaments
materialUsed stone objects
materialUsed wooden staffs
materialUsed wooden tablets
numberOfKnownInscriptions about two dozen artifacts
possibleFunction calendrical information
possibleFunction genealogical records
possibleFunction land or resource records
possibleFunction ritual chants
region Polynesia
scholarlyDebate degree of pre-contact antiquity
scholarlyDebate whether it encodes full language or mnemonic prompts
scriptDirection bottom-to-top line orientation
scriptDirection left-to-right within each line
scriptFamily unclassified
status undeciphered
timePeriod 19th century documentation
timePeriod pre-European contact period on Easter Island
writingIndependenceStatus possibly independent invention of writing
writingSystemType glyphic script
writingSystemType pictographic script