La Mojarra Stela 1 and epi-Olmec script
Estela 1 de La Mojarra y escritura epiolmeca
- Date
- 156 · confidence high
- Place
- La Mojarra, Alvarado, Veracruz, Mexico
- Credited to
- Epi-Olmec people of the isthmus
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A stela bearing a long inscription of about 465 glyphs and a Long Count date equivalent to AD 156, in the epi-Olmec or Isthmian script. It is the longest known text in that script.
Justeson and Kaufman's 1993 decipherment, reading it as a Mixe-Zoquean language, is disputed by other researchers.
What it led to
- knowledge of the Long Count outside the Maya area
- a long text for studying a possible Olmec-Maya bridge
- attempts to decipher the Isthmian script