Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 3, Part 3. Yaxchilan

Ian Graham

ISBN 10: 0873657993 / ISBN 13: 9780873657990

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1982

About this Item

57 pages. Folio sized paperback. Map of the Central Lowlands folded in four and inserted into a pocket on the rear cover. Text in English. Some sunning to the spine and gentle shelfwear rubbing to the covers. Else, the binding is tight, the edges reasonably sharp, and interior clean and free of markings. Part of a multi-volume major study, each of which is sold separately. Bound in stiff red paper covers with gold stamping.

Seller Inventory # 024413

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 3, Part 3. Yaxchilan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873657993
• ISBN 13: 9780873657990
• Binding: Wrappers
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Pre-Columbian Art

About this title

Synopsis

For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the Corpus will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 monuments. The series has been instrumental in the remarkable success of the ongoing process of deciphering Maya writing, making available hundreds of texts to epigraphers working around the world.

Each volume in the series consists of three fascicles, which examine an individual site or group of neighboring sites and include maps of site location and plans indicating the placement monuments within each site. Each inscription is reproduced in its entirety in both photographs and line drawings. The text of each volume presents descriptive information about the sites and monuments and their associated artifacts.

This volume also includes: additions and corrections relating to already-published Yaxchilan lintels; Yaxchilan hieroglyphic stairways; key to maps of the Maya area currently available and maps still to be published; list of sources of sculpture and their codes; an index to volumes 1 through 3; and an oversize map of the central lowlands of the Maya area.

Review

Ian Graham has done more than any other person to save the fragile written record of the ancient Maya from destruction by looters, harsh weather and acid rain...All Mayanists agree an the importance of Graham's work.

The "Corpus" will be a lasting contribution to the study of the Maya and will save much of the cultural heritage of Mesoamerica from sure obliteration. We owe a debt of gratitude to the authors.