Reading the Maya glyphs:
In this practical guide Michael D. Coe and Mark Van Stone have made the difficult, often mysterious Maya script accessible to the nonspecialist. They decipher real Maya texts, and the transcriptions include a picture of the glyph, the pronunciation, the Maya words in Roman type, and the translation...
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Zusammenfassung: | In this practical guide Michael D. Coe and Mark Van Stone have made the difficult, often mysterious Maya script accessible to the nonspecialist. They decipher real Maya texts, and the transcriptions include a picture of the glyph, the pronunciation, the Maya words in Roman type, and the translation into English. The book includes illustrations of historic texts, a syllabary, a lexicon, and translation exercises. For the second edition the authors have added glyphs, updated captions, and reinterpreted or expanded upon earlier decipherments |
Beschreibung: | "With glyph illustrations throughout". - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-173) and index The cultural background of Maya writing -- The nature of the Maya script -- Time and the calendar -- Royal lives and royal rituals -- Places and polities -- Dynastic names and titles -- Relationships -- Warfare -- Scribes and artists -- Ceramic texts -- The supernatural world -- The inanimate and animate worlds |
Beschreibung: | 176 p. ill. (some col.), col. map 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9780500285534 0500285535 |
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adam_text | CONTENTS
PRLFACl
7
і
Iliť
CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF
ΜΛΥΛ
WRITING
11
1.1
Overview of a civilization
11
1.2
Scribes and artists
13
1.3
The language of the inscriptions
15
2
TH!·; NATURE OF THE MAYA SCRIPT
17
2.1
Principles
17
2.2
Syllabograms
20
2.3
Morphosyllabic signs
22
2.4
Logograms with phonetic complements
24
2.5
Polyvalence
25
2.6
Conflation
26
2.7
Some grammar
26
2.7.1
Nouns
27
2.7.2
GŕWífo-
28
2.7.3
Pronouns
29
2.7.4
Adjectives
31
2.7.5
Ferfo
32
2.8
Locative prepositions
35
3
TliVtľ. ANI) TU Ľ
CALENDAR
37
3.1
General remarks
37
3.2
Maya numbers
38
3.3
The Calendar Round
40
3.3.1
The 260-day Count
41
3.3.2
TbeHaab
42
3.4
The Long Count and the Initial Series
45
3.4.1
The Initial Series
48
3.4.2
The Supplementary Series
49
3.5
Distance Numbers, Period Endings, and anniversaries
53
4
ROYAL l.iVl-S AND ROYAL RITUALS
59
4.1
General remarks
59
4.2
Life-cycle events
59
4.2.1
Birth
59
4.2.2
Accession
61
4.2.3
Death and burial
62
4.3
Ritual activities
63
4.3.1
Period Ending rites
63
4.3.2
Bloodletting
64
4.3.3
God impersonation
65
4.3.4
Royal dance
65
4.3.5 Ballplay
ing and ballcourts
66
4.3.6
Postscript
67
5
PLACES AND POLITIES
68
5.1
Emblem Glyphs
68
5.2
Toponyms (place names)
71
6
DYNASTIC NAMES AND TITLES
74
6.1
Titles
74
6.2
Rulers
79
7
RELATIONSHIPS
86
7.1
Parentage statements
86
7.2
Spouse
87
7.3
Siblings
88
8
WARFARE
89
8.1
Glyphs for general war
89
8.2
The taking of prisoners
90
9
SCRIBES AND ARTISTS
94
9.1
Users of brush pens
94
9.2
Carvers
95
9.3
Other titles for artists and scribes
96
10
CERAMIC TEXTS
98
10.1
General remarks
98
10.2
The Primary Standard Sequence
(PSS)
99
11
THE SUPERNATURAL WORLD
108
11.1
General remarks
108
11.2
Divinity and godhead
109
11.3
The major gods
110
11.4
Paired gods
118
11.5
Triads
118
11.6
The Death Gods
119
11.7
The way spirit-companions
121
12
THE INANIMATE AND ANIMATE WORLDS
123
12.1
The physical world
123
12.1.1
The directions
123
12.1.2
Tbecolors
125
12.1.3
The sky and the earth
126
12.2
Humans ]28
12.3
Animals
129
12.4
Buildings and structures
132
12.5
Stone objects
133
12.6
Pottery vessels
135
12.7
Costume and personal adornment
135
Illustration r.xampies
137
Syllabary
155
A Maya Lexicon
161
Caiendrical Formulae and Tables
167
Software Programs
168
Hxercise Answers
169
Brief Bibliography
172
Acknowledgments
173
Index
174
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