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[#29] Maya context for pillar 'cultural context'
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year = {1962}
}

@inbook{kelley1962,
@article{kelley1962a,
author = {Kelley, David H.},
journal = {American Antiquity},
number = {3},
title = {Glyphic Evidence for a Dynastic Sequence at Quirigua, Guatemala},
volume = {27},
pages = {323-335},
year = {1962}
}

@inbook{kelley1962b,
author = {Kelley, David H.},
chapter = {Reviewed Work: A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs by J. Eric S. Thompson},
pages = {436-438},
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doi = {https://doi.org/10.2307/502055},
}

@article{kelley1968,
author = {Kelley, David H.},
journal = {Estudios de Cultura Maya},
title = {Kakupacal and the Itzas},
volume = {7},
pages = {255-268},
publisher = {Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut\'{o}noma de M\'{e}xico},
year = {1968},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.1968.7.703},
}

@book{gelb1963,
author = {Gelb, Ignace Jay},
publisher = {University of Chicago Press, Chicago},
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In the 1960s David Kelley was able to show that a sequence of signs actually represent the name
of a Maya ruler (\cite{kelley1962a}).
He could show that with the help of Landa's abecedary
(see \ref{fig:terminology-landa-relacion-folio-45r}) several sign sequences in the temples of
Chich\'{e}n Itz\'{a} denote the name of the ruler \mayan{K\glottalstop{}ak\glottalstop{}upakal}.
By cross-referencing this name with the book of Chilam Balam of Chumanyel --- a colonial source
written in Yucatec Maya with Latin letters he could identify that these inscription indeed
mention the name of the Maya ruler (\cite{kelley1968}).

Tu uucpiz tun Uaxac Ahau u katunil, laix u katunil cimci Chakanputin tumen Kak-u-pacal yetel Tec Uilue.
In the seventh tun of Katun 8 Ahau, this was the katun when Chakanputun perished at the hands of Kak-u-pacal and Tec Uilu

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- David H. Kelley - Glyphic Evidence for a Dynastic Sequenced Quirigua
- David H. Kelley - Kakupakal and the Itzas


\subsection{Bilingual, biscript, or similar constraint}
Any clue as to what the content of the text might be is very important in deciphering an
unknown script.
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but, as later progress in decipherment has shown, were actually distinct graphemes.
Eric Thompson (\cite[12\psq]{thompson1962catalog}) recognized the method of segmentation as
a potential source of false conclusions.
David Kelley (\cite{kelley1962}) was able to show in his review of Thompson's sign catalog that
David Kelley (\cite{kelley1962b}) was able to show in his review of Thompson's sign catalog that
some T-numbers represent more than one grapheme
(e.g. \thompson{683a} and \thompson{T683b}~\ref{fig:terminology-t683a-t683b})
and some T-numbers are allographs of another
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