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[[File:Pillar_5-Daytime.jpg|thumb|right|Pillar 5 during the daytime]]
 
[[File:Pillar_5-Daytime.jpg|thumb|right|Pillar 5 during the daytime]]
  
Pillar 5 contains three sets of ciphers. The first is a grid of 10 rows by 26 columns of glyphs comprising a circle with one pointed corner  that I have dubbed a 'squircle'. Below this, is a multi-line non-grid alphabetic cipher. On the base is the ever-present series of numbers.
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Pillar 5 contains a non-alphanumeric cipher using 'squircle' shapes ('''Unsolved'''), an alphabetic cipher ('''Not transcribed''' and '''Unsolved'''), and a series of numbers around the bottom which probably form part of a cipher ('''Unsolved''')..
  
 
==Squircle cipher==
 
==Squircle cipher==

Revision as of 21:29, 11 March 2013

Pillar 5 during the daytime

Pillar 5 contains a non-alphanumeric cipher using 'squircle' shapes (Unsolved), an alphabetic cipher (Not transcribed and Unsolved), and a series of numbers around the bottom which probably form part of a cipher (Unsolved)..

Squircle cipher

The grid of squircles
Numbering scheme based on Cartesian quadrant numbering

The squircle grid is 10 rows by 26 columns. I have transcribed each depending on the direction the corner points in line with Cartesian quadrant naming (see graphic to the right).

The transcription of the squircle grid is:

14441144144414134324224143

13121142233212222111311123

34334422412123231413111423

32432113434332114214424432

41412411141414314314334412

21343424122111312144443221

21414444343123423143341422

42212232132431333222233143

11111414133114312324241124

21441222313431443213443432

Alphabetic Cipher

To be transcribed and photos compiled. See the image gallery in the interim.

Base

A series of numbers run around the base of Pillar 5:

11 12 9 12 11 13 15 17 28 3017 18 11 10 12 13 14 19 24 12 13 11 12