This paper studies the Cascajal Block, a serpentinite artifact with an Olmec text dating to ca. 1000–900 b.c. (Rodríguez Martínez et al. 2006a). It introduces a new line drawing made possible by the detailed documentation carried out by Carrasco and Englehardt, presents a distributional analysis of the inscription in order to assess the sign inventory proposed by Rodríguez Martínez et al. (2006a) and revised by Mora-Marín (2009), and, most significantly, suggests that certain irregularities in the patterns of sign co-occurrence raised by previous authors (Justeson 2012; Macri 2006) are consistent with spelling practices in logosyllabic scripts, showing that the script is linguistically motivated. The work by Carrasco and Englehardt (2015) on the identification and analysis of sign pairings as likely diphrastic kennings is highlighted as crucial to establishing semantic controls needed for any attempt at decipherment; a new, repeated pairing is proposed, consisting of the PELT-PAW signs. Finally, this paper assesses how the various models for the reading formatting and direction of the text could impact the proposed hypotheses.

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CASCAJAL 块：新的线条绘制、分布分析和正交模式

本文研究了卡斯卡哈尔块，这是一种蛇纹石人工制品，其奥尔梅克文字可追溯到 ca。1000–900公元前（Rodríguez Martínez 等人，2006a）。它引入了由 Carrasco 和 Englehardt 进行的详细文档制作的新线条图，并介绍了铭文的分布分析，以评估 Rodríguez Martínez 等人提出的标志清单。(2006a) 并由 Mora-Marín (2009) 修订，并且最重要的是，表明以前的作者 (Justeson 2012; Macri 2006) 提出的符号共现模式中的某些不规则性与徽标音节脚本中的拼写实践一致，表明剧本是有语言动机的。Carrasco 和 Englehardt (2015) 关于识别和分析符号配对作为可能的双语词组的工作被强调为建立任何尝试破译所需的语义控制的关键；提出了一个新的、重复的配对，由 PELT-PAW 标志组成。最后，本文评估了文本阅读格式和方向的各种模型如何影响所提出的假设。