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Die "Open Science"-Strategie im Projekt "Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya"
Diederichs, Katja (2015-04-08)Im folgenden Beitrag wird die Veröffentlichungs- und Wissensvermittlungsstrategie des Forschungsprojektes Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya vorgestellt und erläutert. Projektziel ... -
Shedding New Light on the Maya Stela from Hix Witz in Stuttgart
Prager, Christian M.; Gronemeyer, Sven; Wagner, Elisabeth (2020-05-25)A Maya stela with a hieroglyphic text and a portrayal of a Maya ruler that is now in the collections of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany (inventory no. M 30751), has received scant attention from scholars to date ... -
The Sign 576 as a Logograph for KUK, a Type of Bundle
Prager, Christian M. (2020-04-02)The decipherment KUK for sign 576 that has been tested here proves productive for understanding its occurrences in Palenque (yok kuk ch’ajan ‘guardian of the tied bundle’) and for reading the name phrase of the way creature ... -
Ein TEI-Metadatenschema für die Auszeichnung des Klassischen Maya
Maier, Petra (2015-07-27)Als Teilziel des ersten TWKM-Projektabschnitts ist die Erstellung einer Arbeitsversion des Wörterbuches in elektronischer Form vorgesehen. Bereits mit dem Projektantrag war vorgesehen, dass die Erschließung der Inschriftentexte ... -
The "Open Science" Strategy of the Project “Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan”
Diederichs, Katja (2015-04-08)The following article presents and explains the publication and knowledge transfer strategy of the research project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan. The project’s goal is to make accessible in a database ... -
The Creation of a TEI Metadata Schema for Cataloging Classic Mayan Texts
Maier, Petra (2015-07-27)This paper summarizes preliminary ideas and suggestions for developing a XML/TEI metadata schema for cataloging all known Classic Mayan texts. The TEI metadata schema thus constitutes a component of the metadata concept ... -
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 Month Name Wayeb': A Substitution Pattern
Prager, Christian M. (2003)This note is concerned with the hieroglyph for the Maya month Wayeb. The standard variant of this glyph consists of the signs T157:548. The sign T157 and its allographs T728 / T769 depict the gaping lower jaw of the earth ... -
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. ... -
What Could Happen in 2012: A Re-Analysis of the 13-Bak’tun Prophecy on Tortuguero Monument 6
Gronemeyer, Sven; MacLeod, Barbara (2010)The so-called “end of the world” – scheduled for the winter solstice of 2012 by certain groups of people – is moving rapidly into public focus. The topic receives ever more publicity in the media; Hollywood has even jumped ... -
Zahlklassifikatoren in Hieroglyphen-Inschriften der Klassischen Maya-Kultur: Beobachtungen zu T87
Prager, Christian M. (2003)In der vorliegenden Notiz werden die syntaktischen und morphologischen Strukturen von Zahlklassifikatoren im sprachlichen und hieroglyphenschritlichen Kontext am Beispiel des Zeichens T87 für das Wort TE' untersucht und ...