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Reading the Maya glyphs

Author: Michael D Coe; Mark Van Stone
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael D Coe; Mark Van Stone
ISBN: 0500285535 9780500285534
OCLC Number: 60532227
Notes: "With glyph illustrations throughout."
Description: 176 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
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.
Responsibility: Michael D. Coe, Mark Van Stone.

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In the recent past, a working knowledge of the Maya script has been confined to epigraphers, art historians and other specialists. This is a compact, portable guide to enable students, tourists and  Read more...

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