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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Hauptverfasser: Coe, Michael D. 1929-2019 (VerfasserIn), Van Stone, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Thames & Hudson 2005
Ausgabe:2. ed., rev.
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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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