The inscriptions at Copan / by Sylvanus Griswold Morley...

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948.

Contributor:

• George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 219.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 219

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mayan languages--Writing.
• Maya chronology.
• Mayan languages.
• Copán Site (Honduras)--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xii, 643 pages frontispiece, 1 unnumbered page frontispiece : illustrations, plates (part folded) map, folded plans, diagrams ; 29 x 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D. C. : The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1920.

Contents:

• Appendices: A petrographic description of the material of the Copan monuments, by Fred. E. Wright.
• The correlation of Maya and Christian chronology.
• The nomenclature of the Copan monuments.
• A description of the ruins of Copan, by Diego García de Palacio, in 1576.
• A description of the ruins of Copan, by Francisco Antonio Fuentes y Guzmán, in 1689.
• The supplementary series.
• The hotun.
• List of monuments marking the hotun-endings during the Old Empire.
• The provenance and dates of the Copan monuments.
• List of day-signs and month-signs found in the Copan inscriptions.
• A description of the ruins of Copan, by Juan Galindo in 1834.
• The distribution of the several branches of the Mayance linguistic stock, by William Gates.

Notes:

• "The present investigation is limited to a consideration of the chronological data found in the Copan inscriptions."--p. 33.
• Bibliography: pages 617-628.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

OCLC:

544798

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