Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T00:17:49.883Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Logograph in Maya Writing for the Verb “To Record”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Federico Fahsen
Federico Fahsen
Affiliation:
Fahsen, Sherman, and Company, 11 Calle, 3-72, Zona 10, Guatemala, C.A.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Hieroglyphic signs T757/788 have several functions in Maya texts, from strictly phonetic to grammatical. The author of this article suggests that a variant of this sign is the logograph for the verb or expression “to record,” which is different from the expression “to write.”

Type
Articles
Information
Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 91 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Bricker, Victoria R. 1986 A Grammar of Mayan Hieroglyphs. Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, Publication No. 56, New Orleans, LA.Google Scholar
Closs, Michael P. 1989 The Hieroglyphic Text of Stela 9, Lamanai, Belize. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing No. 21. Center for Maya Research, Washington, DC.Google Scholar
Coe, Michael D. 1973 The Maya Scribe and His World. The Grolier Club, New York.Google Scholar
Coe, Michael D. 1978 The Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar
Fahsen, Federico 1988 A New Early Classic Text from Tikal. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, No. 17. Center for Maya Research, Washington, DC.Google Scholar
Kaufman, Terrence S., and Norman, William M. 1984 An Outline of Proto-Cholan Phonology, Morphology, and Vocabulary. In Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing, edited by Justeson, John S. and Campbell, Lyle, pp. 77–166. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany, Publication No. 9.Google Scholar
Proskouriakoff, Tatiana 1962 Los señores del estado Maya. Antropologia e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala XIV(1):57–64.Google Scholar
Riese, Berthold 1984 Appendix B. In Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing, edited by Justeson, John S. and Campbell, Lyle, pp. 315–364. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany, Publication No. 9.Google Scholar
Robicsek, Francis, and Hales, Donald M. 1981 The Maya Book of the Dead, the Ceramic Codex: The Corpus of Codex Style Ceramics of the Late Classic Period. University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville.Google Scholar
Schele, Linda 1982 Maya Glyphs: The Verbs. University of Texas Press, Austin.Google Scholar
Schele, Linda, and Stuart, David 1986 Te Tun as a Glyph for “Stela.” Copan Notes 1. Report on file at Kinko's Copies, 2914 Medical Arts Street, Austin, TX 78712.Google Scholar
Stuart, David 1987 Ten Phonetic Syllables. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, No. 14. Center for Maya Research, Washington, DC.Google Scholar
Thompson, J. Eric S. 1962 A Catalogue of Maya Hieroglyphs. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.Google Scholar