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Reading the Maya glyphs / Michael D. Coe, Mark Van Stone.
- Title
- Reading the Maya glyphs / Michael D. Coe, Mark Van Stone.
- Author
- Coe, Michael D.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Van Stone, Mark
- Description
- 176 p. : ill., 1 col map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In this practical guide Michael D. Coe and Mark Van Stone have made the difficult, often mysterious Maya script accessible to the nonspecialist. They decipher real Maya texts, and the transcriptions include a picture of the glyph, the pronunciation, the Maya words in Roman type, and the translation into English. The book includes illustrations of historic texts, a syllabary, a lexicon, and translation exercises. For the second edition the authors have added glyphs, updated captions, and reinterpreted or expanded upon earlier decipherments.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Surveys (form)
- Note
- Previous ed.: 2001.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-173) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The cultural background of Maya writing -- The nature of the Maya script -- Time and the calendar -- Royal lives and royal rituals -- Places and polities -- Dynastic names and titles -- Relationships -- Warfare -- Scribes and artists -- Ceramic texts -- The supernatural world -- The inanimate and animate worlds.
- ISBN
- 0500285535
- 9780500285534
- LCCN
- ^^2004112870
- OCLC
- 60532227
- SCSB-10422065
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library