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Tz'atz' Nah, a "New" Term in the Classic Mayan Lexicon
(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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...