Record details

• ISBN: 0500051100
• ISBN: 9780500051108
• Physical Description: 176 pages : illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
• Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-173) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Cultural Background of Maya Writing 11 -- 1.1 Overview of a civilization 11 -- 1.2 Scribes and artists 13 -- 1.3 Language of the inscriptions 15 -- 2 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 -- 2.8 Locative prepositions 35 -- 3 Time and the Calendar 37 -- 3.1 General remarks 37 -- 3.2 Maya numbers 38 -- 3.3 Calendar Round 40 -- 3.4 Long Count and the Initial Series 45 -- 3.5 Distance Numbers, Period Endings, and anniversaries 53 -- 4 Royal Lives and Royal Rituals 59 -- 4.1 General remarks 59 -- 4.2 Life-cycle events 59 -- 4.3 Ritual activities 63 -- 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 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 Primary Standard Sequence (PSS) 99 -- 11 Supernatural World 108 -- 11.1 General remarks 108 -- 11.2 Divinity and godhead 109 -- 11.3 Major gods 110 -- 11.4 Paired gods 118 -- 11.5 Triads 118 -- 11.6 Death Gods 119 -- 11.7 Way spirit-companions 121 -- 12 Inanimate and Animate Worlds 123 -- 12.1 Physical world 123 -- 12.2 Humans 128 -- 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 -- Syllabary 155 -- A Maya Lexicon 161 -- Calendrical Formulae and Tables 167 -- Software Programs 168.

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Subject:

Inscriptions, Mayan.
Mayan languages > Writing.