Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya: Research Notes
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Jun Yop Ixiim – Another Appellative for the Ancient Maya Maize God
Wagner, Elisabeth (2017-10-19)The present note will discuss a new reading of the initial hieroglyphic block (D1) of K’inich Janaab Pakal II’s (henceforth: Pakal) nominal phrase as recorded in the inscription on the Oval Palace Tablet at Palenque. -
Historical Implications of the Early Classic Hieroglyphic Text CPN 3033 on the Sculptured Step of Structure 10L 11-Sub-12 at Copan
Prager, Christian M.; Wagner, Elisabeth (2017-08-31)This paper examines the hieroglyphic text carved on an Early Classic hieroglyphic step found in 1935 in Copan Structure 10L-11-Sub-12. -
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. -
A Possible Logograph XAN “Palm” in Maya Writing
Prager, Christian M.; Wagner, Elisabeth (2016-11-17)This epigraphic note explores the idea that Maya scribes invented and used a sign for “palm, guano” in their writing system. Epigraphic and linguistic data strongly support our hypothesis that the graph A27 renders the ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Filling the Grid? More Evidence for the <t’a> Syllabogram
Gronemeyer, Sven (2016-09-07)This epigraphic note reviews David Stuart’s proposal for a t’a syllabogram and enriches the evidence for his reading by providing more examples in different productive contexts. -
A Ceramic Vessel of Unknown Provenance in Bonn
Prager, Christian M.; Gronemeyer, Sven; Wagner, Elisabeth (2015-01-05)This initial epigraphic note by the members of the "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan" project is dedicated to text and image of a hitherto unpublished ceramic vessel that is on display in the Bonner ...