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Glyphic Evidence for a Dynastic Sequence at Quiriguá, Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David H. Kelley
David H. Kelley*
Affiliation:
Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Tex.
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Abstract

This paper attempts to establish the rules governing the recognition of names in the Maya script, particularly with regard to their glyphic context. These rules are applied to the Quiriguá inscriptions; glyph clauses pertaining to three rulers are established with some probability and two others are suggested more doubtfully. The founder of the Quiriguá dynasty was apparently related to an identified ruler at Copán, and it is shown that at least one and probably two later rulers at Copán share some names and titles with the Quiriguá rulers. It is suggested that the family name of the rulers of Copán and Quiriguá was caan, sky.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , January 1962 , pp. 323 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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