<s>
Text	O
K	O
of	O
the	O
rongorongo	B-Language
corpus	O
,	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
the	O
(	O
Small	O
)	O
London	O
tablet	O
,	O
is	O
one	O
of	O
two	O
dozen	O
surviving	O
rongorongo	B-Language
texts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
nearly	O
duplicates	O
the	O
recto	O
of	O
tablet	O
G	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fischer	O
also	O
notes	O
underlying	O
hair-line	O
glyphs	O
which	O
suggest	O
to	O
him	O
that	O
K	O
may	O
be	O
a	O
palimpsest	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
believes	O
that	O
it	O
was	O
carved	O
"	O
just	O
before	O
the	O
cessation	O
of	O
rongorongo	B-Language
production	O
in	O
the	O
1860s	O
"	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
period	O
of	O
decline	O
that	O
followed	O
the	O
death	O
of	O
ariki	O
Ngaara	O
in	O
circa	O
1859	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
London	O
tablet	O
contains	O
the	O
text	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
seven	O
lines	O
of	O
the	O
Small	B-Algorithm
Santiago	I-Algorithm
tablet	I-Algorithm
,	O
although	O
as	O
a	O
paraphrase	O
rather	O
than	O
a	O
direct	O
copy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
of	O
the	O
frequent	O
repetition	O
of	O
glyph	O
380.1	O
,	O
which	O
he	O
interpreted	O
as	O
a	O
tangata	O
rongorongo	B-Language
(	O
rongorongo	B-Language
chanter	O
)	O
with	O
a	O
kouhau	O
(	O
staff	O
)	O
,	O
Barthel	O
(	O
1958:310	O
)	O
believed	O
K	O
was	O
a	O
catalog	O
of	O
other	O
kohau	O
rongorongo	B-Language
texts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fischer	O
also	O
believes	O
it	O
to	O
be	O
a	O
list	O
of	O
some	O
kind	O
,	O
and	O
notes	O
that	O
the	O
simplicity	O
of	O
the	O
repeated	O
glyph	O
on	O
this	O
recent	O
tablet	O
,	O
compared	O
to	O
380.1	O
+3	O
of	O
G	B-Algorithm
and	O
380.1	O
+52	O
of	O
N	O
,	O
suggests	O
a	O
compositional	O
simplification	O
over	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
prototypical	O
pictograph	O
of	O
a	O
bird	O
,	O
glyph	O
600	O
,	O
which	O
looks	O
like	O
a	O
frigatebird	O
on	O
older	O
rongorongo	B-Language
texts	O
such	O
as	O
G	B-Algorithm
,	O
here	O
has	O
a	O
different	O
head	O
,	O
resembling	O
in	O
Fischer	O
's	O
opinion	O
the	O
sooty	O
tern	O
.	O
</s>
