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A Note on the Maya Venus Table

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert H. Merrill
Robert H. Merrill*
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To permit the entire six Dresden codex pages 24, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 to be seen within the purview of a single page, the Gates restoration is here photographed together with a partial translation (Fig. 7). This facilitates following the procedure detailed on pages 94–8 of “Maya Astronomy“ by Dr. John E. Teeple1 and on pages 209–13 of “Astronomical Tables of the Maya” by Dr. Maud W. Makemsen, for predicting the four Venus phase limits; and is intended to supplement the writer's discussion on pages 35–8 of American Antiquity (Vol. XII, July, 1946).

The English rendering of Maya day names and month names may assist the student unfamiliar with these particular hieroglyphs in the original manuscript.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , July 1947 , pp. 82 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1947

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References

1 Teeple, John E., “Maya Astronomy,” Contributions to American Archaeology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Vol. 1, No. 2, Washington, 1930 Google Scholar.

2 Maude W. Makemsen, Astronomical Tables of the Maya, 1943.

3 Merrill, Robert H., “A Graphical Approach to Some Problems in Maya Astronomy,” AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. XII, pp. 35–46, 1946 Google Scholar.

4 S. G. Morley, “Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs,” Bulletin, Bureau of American Ethnology, No. 57, Washington, 1915, p. 277.

5 Fórstemann, Ernest, “Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden,” Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. IV, No. 2, Cambridge, 1906, p. 111 Google Scholar.

6 John E. Teeple, ibid., p. 95.

7 Herbert J. Spinden, “Maya Dates and What They Reveal.” Science Bulletin, The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 1, Brooklyn, 1930, pp. 82–7.

8 Ernst FSrstemann, ibid., p. 183.