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A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics

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By Daniel G. Brinton
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A concise manual introducing Mayan hieroglyphic writing and its decipherment, covering the script's general character and surviving manuscripts, the numerical and calendrical systems and astronomical content, pictorial motifs including deities, cosmology and ritual, and graphic conventions for composing and reading glyphs. It explains Mayan numeric notation and time-count methods, catalogues common visual radicals and symbols, outlines methods for tracing ritual calendars, and offers specimen texts and analyses. The work aims to supply learners with elemental tools for studying inscriptions, combining descriptive summaries of glyphic elements with practical guidance for interpretation.

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Title: A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics

Author: Daniel G. Brinton

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Language: English

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Publications of the University of Pennsylvania
SERIES IN
Philology Literature and Archæology
Vol. III No. 2

A PRIMER OF
MAYAN HIEROGLYPHICS

BY
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D.
PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, ETC., ETC.
“Hieroglyphics old,
Which sages and keen-eyed astrologers,
Then living on the earth, with labouring thought,
Won from the gaze of many centuries.”
—Keats
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