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Some New Glyphs On An Unusual Maya Stela

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Florence F. Liman  and
Marshall Durbin
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Abstract

An unusual Maya stela in the St. Louis Art Museum has a number of distinguishing characteristics: (1) The cylindrical shape is comparatively rare for a free-standing Maya monument. (2) Thegtyphic inscription contains four previously unnoted glyph groups. (3) The inscription includes a rare glyph group of which only a very few examples are known. (4) The shape of the glyphs and the placement of the numbers seem to be governed by aesthetic considerations, although the variations of the tun glyph may have semantic implications.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , July 1975 , pp. 314 - 320
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1975

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