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Copper Earrings with Isthmian Script

SKU: 727
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I made these earrings in copper using a sample of Isthmian script. The black and teal glass beads are hung on copper wire, and the earwires are hypoallergenic niobium. They are approximately 1 3/4" long including the beads.

Isthmian is one of several pre-Mayan Central American scripts. One of the few examples found seems to date from around 100-200 AD, but the script may go back as far as 450 BC. In 1933 John Justeson and Terrence Kaufman proposed a partial decipherment of one surviving text, but their work was later disputed, and the issue is still unresolved.



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