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The Creation of a TEI Metadata Schema for Cataloging Classic Mayan Texts
(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 ...
Zahlklassifikatoren in Hieroglyphen-Inschriften der Klassischen Maya-Kultur: Beobachtungen zu T87
(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 ...
The Term “Lima Bean Vessel” in the Classic Mayan Lexicon
(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 Sign 576 as a Logograph for KUK, a Type of Bundle
(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 ...
Neue Ergebnisse in der Erforschung der Graphemik und Graphetik des Klassischen Maya
(2018)
The hitherto only partially deciphered Maya hieroglyphic writing system is one of the most em-inent examples of the development of writing in the world. The present article discusses a new description scheme for graphemes ...
Evaluating the Digital Documentation Process from 3D Scan to Drawing
(2015-04-17)
The "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan" project acquired a Breuckmann smartSCAN C5 structured-light scanner for high-resolution and three-dimensional documentation of Maya artefacts with inscriptions. Renderings ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shedding New Light on the Maya Stela from Hix Witz in Stuttgart
(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 ...