Maya Script : A Civilization and its Writing

Longhena, Maria

ISBN 10: 0789206536 / ISBN 13: 9780789206534

Editore: Abbeville Pr, 2000

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Abbeville Press June 2000 8vo. 180 pages. text block crisp. clean, tight copy. NF.

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• Titolo: Maya Script : A Civilization and its Writing
• Editore: Abbeville Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0789206536
• ISBN 13: 9780789206534
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Fine

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This volume presents about 200 Maya glyphs (symbolic figures). Some are ideograms (pictorial symbols representing things, not words); others are phonetic signs. The glyphs express people, animals, things, and such abstract concepts as death. Each one opens a window onto fragments of everyday life, religious beliefs, or even emotions. The complexity of the Maya calendar, mathematical computations, and astronomy reveals a highly-developed civilization. This book also features two-colour drawings of the glyphs, illustrations from reliefs and Spanish codices, and examples of Maya sculpture and paintings. Concluding the book is a chapter on writing systems of the New World, a list of museums to visit, a bibliography, and an index of glyphs.

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Book by Longhena Maria