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The inscriptions at Copan / by Sylvanus Griswold Morley...
Penn Museum Library AS32 .A5 no.219 1920a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948.
- Series:
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 219.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 219
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayan languages--Writing.
- Mayan languages.
- Maya chronology.
- Copán Site (Honduras)--Antiquities.
- Copán Site (Honduras).
- 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.
- Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI: Books on Demand, 2003.
- Bibliography: pages 617-628.
- OCLC:
- 1005595981
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