Administrative coding system
Inscriptions may encode offices, commodities, lots or affiliations more like a structured code than running speech.
Research compilation
Research compilation from a published ICIT-style digitization — not a complete or licensed photographic corpus
Fit on current defined metric: stronger.
Strong functional model. Not a claim that the signs are non-linguistic.
Assumptions
- Object function is administrative
- Recurrent templates mark fields, not sentences
Strengths
- Fits very short texts
- Explains rigid templates and object-type differences
- Does not require a full phonographic system
Limitations
- Does not identify a language
- Code and language are not mutually exclusive