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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 ...
The Orthographic Conventions of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Being a Contribution to the Phonemic Reconstruction of Classic Mayan
(2014)
This study investigates the orthography of Maya writing on an empirical and statistical basis. It restricts itself to the realisation of certain grammatical morphemes that are selected as representative showcases. Furthermore, ...
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 ...
Beobachtungen zur possessiven Morphologie von Glyphe F
(2003)
Vorliegende Notiz beschäftigt sich mit den Flexionsaffixen von Glyphe F, die zusammen mit Glyphe G die in der Literatur so bezeichneten "Neun Herren der Nacht" benennt (Thompson 1950: 208).
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 ...