Wikipedia contributors collection record for Mamari

Nombre: Text C

Nombre: Mamari

Nombre: RR2

Descripción: Jaussen called it Miro-Mimosa ('Mimosa wood').

Custodia informada: Padri dei Sacri Cuori (SSCC)

Descripción: Text C is held in the general archives of the Padri dei Sacri Cuori (SSCC), Casa Generalizia, Via Rivarone 85, I-00166 Rome, Italy.

Material: Pacific rosewood

Descripción: 29 cm × 19.5 cm × 2.5 cm

Descripción: The tablet is in excellent condition, with one hole at the top (verso).

Descripción: One of Florentin-Étienne Jaussen's tablets, Mamari was apparently collected on Easter Island by Father Gaspar Zumbohm in 1870 and sent to him in Tahiti.

Descripción: It was sent to the headquarters of the Congrégation des Sacrés-Coeurs et de l'Adoration (SSCC) in Paris, where it was deposited in the Missionary Museum, either by Jaussen in 1888 or by the French navy in 1892 after his death. In 1905 it was moved to the SSCC museum in Braine-le-Comte, Belgium. In 1953 it followed the SSCC to Grottaferrata, near Rome, and in 1964 to Rome itself. In 1974 the SSCC moved to its permanent headquarters in Rome.

Descripción: Fourteen lines of glyphs on each side, with ~ 1000 glyphs in total.

Descripción: Two and a half of the fourteen lines on the recto have been shown to include calendrical information; Guy suggests possible phonetic readings of some of the glyphs in this section. Additional lines on both sides may also be calendrical.