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Glyphs G and F: Identified as Aspects of the Maize God
(2006)
Consequently, though many single signs of each G-Glyph have been deciphered in the last decades in other contexts, no attempt was undertaken to re-apply these readings to the G-Glyphs and to make a critical review of the ...
Annual Report for 2014
(2014-12-19)
The incompletely deciphered hieroglyphic script and language of the Maya constitutes the primary focus of the research project under discussion here, which is being carried out cooperatively by the Universities of Bonn and ...
A Preliminary Ruling Sequence of Cobá, Quintana Roo
(2004)
Within this note, I will make the attempt to establish a preliminary dynastic sequence for Cobá. Unfortunately, no key expressions for the demarcation of distinctive rulers can definitely be made out in the texts, such as ...
The Month Name Wayeb': A Substitution Pattern
(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 ...
What Could Happen in 2012: A Re-Analysis of the 13-Bak’tun Prophecy on Tortuguero Monument 6
(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 ...
Modellierung eines digitalen Zeichenkatalogs für die Hieroglyphen des Klassischen Maya: Ein neues Konzept zur Klassifikation von Schriftzeichen sowie der qualitativen Bewertung und Einstufung von Entzifferungshypothesen
(2017)
Im Projekt “Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya” stellt der Zeichen-katalog eine der wichtigsten Komponenten zur Erstellung des digitalen Textkorpus und dessen linguistischer Analyse dar. Für die noch nicht ...
The Forms of Glyph X of the Lunar Series
(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 ...
A Ceramic Vessel of Unknown Provenance in Bonn
(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the members of the "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan" project is dedicated to text and image of a hitherto unpublished ceramic vessel that is on display in the Bonner ...
Yet Another “Decipherment” of the Isthmian Writing2 System
(2020-02-12)
The qW << 0:1 condition hypothesis is formulated as an estimating quick test for the feasibility of a structurally unique and therefore uncontroversial decipherment
of a given morpho-phonographic writing2 ......
of a given morpho-phonographic writing2 ......