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A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics

Chapter 39: II. INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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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.

II. INDEX OF AUTHORS.