Recovered Texts
The four most extensive Isthmian texts are those found on:
- The La Mojarra Stela 1 (shown at right)
- The Tuxtla Statuette
- Tres Zapotes Stela C
- A Teotihuacan-style mask.
Other texts include:
- A few Isthmian glyphs on four badly weathered stelae — 5, 6, 8, and probably 15 — at Cerro de las Mesas.
- Approximately 23 glyphs on the O'Boyle "mask", a clay artifact in a private collection of unknown provenance.
- A small number of glyphs on a pottery-sherd from Chiapa de Corzo. This sherd has been assigned the oldest date of any Isthmian script artifact: 450-300 BCE.
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