Translated from the Italian by Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. Black and white illustrations throughout. First printing thus. Fine in a near fine (fading along the spine) dust jacket.

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Titolo

Maya Script: A Civilization and its Writing.

Editore

Abbeville Press,, NY:

Data di pubblicazione

2000

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0789206536

ISBN 13

9780789206534

Rilegatura

Hardcover

Edizione

prima edizione

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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