The inscriptions of Petén / by Sylvanus Griswold Morley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948.

Series:

Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 437.

Carnegie Institution of Washington publication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petén (Guatemala : Department)--Antiquities.

Petén (Guatemala : Department).

Mayan languages--Writing.

Mayan languages.

Maya chronology.

Physical Description:

5 volumes : frontispieces (v. 1-4) illustrations, plates, maps, plans, folded diagrams ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington : Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1938.

Contents:

Appendices in v. 4: Physical-geological features of Petén, Guatemala, by Hakon Wadell.

The climate of Petén, Guatemala, by John L. Page.

Geographic coordinates of 45 stations (43 archaeological sites and 2 chicle camps) within the area covered by plates 179 and 182.

Results of a topographic survey of lake Petén Itzá, Petén, Guatemala, by J. O. Kilmartin.

List of all inscriptions examined in this study.

List of all known Maya inscriptions lying outside the region covered by this study.

Classification of the stel described in this study on the basis of the arrangement of their respective designs.

List of all known Maya hotun-markers.

List of non-tun-ending initial series inscriptions for which it has been impossible to assign corresponding tun-ending contemporaneous dates.

List of all known day and month signs occurring on monuments examined in this study.

Errors in the original texts.

List of monuments the designations of which have been changed.

Monuments or objects having inscriptions from the Maya area that have been removed from the original positions.

Gregorian equivalents for the hotun-endings.

Notes:

Some of the plates, maps and plans are folded.

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI: Books on Demand, 2003.

Bibliography: volume 4, pages 423-448.

Local Notes:

Vol. 5, pt. 1-2: Plates. [Some of pt. 2 missing.]

OCLC:

63601225