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[#29] Maya context for pillar 'cultural context'
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Well known place names, royal names or titles which occur in unknown script
play an important role in decipherment as they might hint how the fundamental mechanics of
the writing system work.

\subsubsection{The Rosetta Stone}
One great example how royal names of titles helped to create an important insight of an unknown
script, was the breakthrough Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Champollion had in deciphering the
Egyptian hieroglyphs when analyzing the so-called Rosetta Stone which had a text written in
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\label{fig:terminology-ptolemy-cartouche}
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\subsubsection{Maya rulers of Chich\'{e}n Itz\'{a}}
David Kelley was able to show that names of Maya rulers occur in the inscriptions and in colonial
sources from the 16th century.
On several inscriptions in the temple of Chich\'{e}n Itz\'{a}, Herman Beyer (\cite{beyer1937})
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