From a5377929df794290332d30369d336de4e73d8f80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Bauer <75776786+yax-lakam-tuun@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:58:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [#29] Maya context for pillar 'cultural context' --- references.bib | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- terminology/terminology.tex | 13 +++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/references.bib b/references.bib index 5d9fae8..b10fcf7 100644 --- a/references.bib +++ b/references.bib @@ -68,7 +68,17 @@ @book{thompson1962 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}, @@ -79,6 +89,17 @@ @inbook{kelley1962 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}, diff --git a/terminology/terminology.tex b/terminology/terminology.tex index 8d0b307..6b846a8 100644 --- a/terminology/terminology.tex +++ b/terminology/terminology.tex @@ -214,6 +214,16 @@ \subsection{Cultural context} \end{center} % LTeX: enabled=false + +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 @@ -250,7 +260,6 @@ \subsection{Cultural context} - 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. @@ -345,7 +354,7 @@ \subsection{Problems and limitations} 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