An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs
An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs, published in 1915 as a bulletin of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, is Sylvanus Griswold Morley's guide for beginners to the Maya writing system as it was then understood. Morley concentrates on the part that could be read with confidence, the calendar and numbers. He explains the Maya counts of days and months, the sacred year of 260 days, the long count of cycles and katuns, the bar-and-dot and head-variant numerals, and how dates are recorded on stone monuments and in the surviving codices, with worked examples, tables and many drawings of glyphs. Much of the non-calendrical script remained undeciphered when he wrote. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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