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The Forms of Glyph X of the Lunar Series
Grube, Nikolai (2018-03-12)The Lunar Series of Classic Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions still presents intriguing mysteries to the scholar. Although the significance of many of its elements has been discovered thanks to hundred years of research, there ... -
The Logogram JALAM
Grube, Nikolai (2016-03-24)Several logographic signs in Maya hieroglyphic writing resist decipherment because they occur only in a few and semantically very limited contexts. One of these idiosyncratic logograms is the sign which is listed as T284 ... -
The Term “Lima Bean Vessel” in the Classic Mayan Lexicon
Prager, Christian M. (2018-12-10)This research note, in sum, has proven that the Classic Maya used bowls in which beans were prepared and probably served as food, and designated some ceramics for this purpose with glyphic tags. With the identification of ... -
Two Captives from Uxul
Grube, Nikolai; Esparza Olguín, Octavio Quetzalcoatl (2017-06-28)Our understanding of Classic Maya politics relies to a large degree on hieroglyphic inscriptions recording wars, victories, and the taking of important captives. -
Tz'atz' Nah, a "New" Term in the Classic Mayan Lexicon
Wagner, Elisabeth; Gronemeyer, Sven; Prager, Christian (2015-04-22)The inscriptions of Palenque provide us with a number of extended narrative texts that are rich sources of Classic Maya terms for various classes of objects, used both in simple descriptions and in metaphorical contexts. ...