page_title: Rongorongo text A
section_title: Text
hierarchical_section_title: Rongorongo text A / Text
caption_attribution_description: Barthel's tracing of rongorongo tablet A, side b
context_page_description: Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing.
  Text A of the rongorongo corpus, also known as Tahua, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.
context_section_description: There are eight lines of glyphs on each side, with a total of ~ 1,825 glyphs. Through comparison of phrases shared with other texts, Pozdniakov has established that the reading order of the lines follows Barthel, though the order of the two sides may still be either a–b or b–a.
  Barthel
  Fischer
caption: Side b, as traced by Barthel: Ab1 at top, Ab8 at bottom.
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