Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Introduction by Thompson Eric (36 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Leinen. Condition: Gut. 4°. 347 S., 64 Bl. Beigegrüner Original-Leinenband mit glyphenartiger Titel- und Rückenillustration und Rückenbeschriftung. Sprache: Englisch, Mit 65 ganzseitigen Abbildungen und 22 Tabellen. Dritte Auflage dieser Einführung des berühmten Anthropologen. - Einband leicht berieben und bestaubt, im Fussschnitt etwas geschwärzt. Innen von sauberer Erhaltung. 1520 Gramm.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Introduction 2.5. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. First printing of the 2nd edition xxii + 345pp., including appendices, references, glossary and index, with an extensive unpaginated section of 64 b/w reproductions of hieroglyphics. Large book-may require extra shipping costs.

4°. XXII, 347pp. With 1 frontispiece and 64 plates. Orig. cloth with dw.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Introduction 3.13. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light wear only to dust jacket. 347 pages + plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1960 First Edition. Maya Hierophyphic Writing. An Introduction. By J. Eric S. Thompson. Published by University of Oklahoma Press (Norman OK). Dust jacket is intact but has some shelf wear. Has been taped on inside. Book itself is pristine with no writing or markings. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 347 pages. Plus over 100 unpaginated pages at the back of the book featuring MANY illustrations, drawings, photographs, etc. BR (Box 183).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st University of Oklahoma Press Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. B&W illustrations. Top of DJ has a small chip missing. Uncommon.

Condition: Gut. XXII; 347 S.; Kt.; sowie viele Zeichnungen u. Abb. auf Tafelseiten; 29,5 cm. Gutes Ex.; Umschlag berieben u. m. kl. Läsuren; vorderes Vorsatz nachgedunkelt. - Englisch. - Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (* 31. Dezember 1898 in London; 9. September 1975 in Cambridge) war ein britischer Anthropologe und wird als einer der Pioniere der Maya-Forschung betrachtet. Nach ihm ist die sogenannte Thompson-Korrelation benannt - eine Korrelation zwischen dem Maya-Kalender der klassischen Zeit und dem Gregorianischen Kalender. Bei der Entzifferung der Maya-Schrift galt Thompson lange Zeit als Gegenspieler von Tatiana Proskouriakoff und Juri Knorosow, die wesentliche Grundlagen zu Datierungsfragen bzw. zur Entzifferung der Maya-Schrift gelegt hatten. Da er Knorosows Forschungsergebnisse als marxistische Propaganda bezeichnete, diskreditierte Thompson Knorosows Arbeit, indem er Schwächen in dieser Arbeit nutzte, um das gesamte Werk als falsch abzutun. Dies führte dazu, dass die Entdeckungen Knorosows im Westen mehrheitlich nicht akzeptiert wurden. Nach Thompsons Tod setzten sich Knorosows Annahmen jedoch allmählich durch und bildeten die Grundlage für die weiteren Entzifferungen des Maya-Schriftsystems. Im Jahr 1959 wurde er zum Mitglied (Fellow) der British Academy gewählt. (wiki) // INHALT (Auszug) : . Principles of Maya Glyphic Writing ---- Glyph Styles. ---- Regional Glyphs. ---- Regional Methods of Fixing Dates. ---- The Burden of Time. ---- Maya Poetry. ---- Subject Matter of Hieroglyphic Texts. ---- Inscribed Texts. ---- Written Codices. ---- THE CYCLE OF 260 DAYS. ---- Glyphs for Days. ---- Day Names. ---- Meanings of Day Names. ---- Influences of Day Names. ---- Influences of Day Numbers. ---- Ritualism of Days. ---- Divinity of the Days. ---- Names of the 260-day Cycle and of its Divisions. ---- Range of 260-day Cycle. ---- Origin of 260-day Cycle. ---- Ritualistic and Divinatory Divisions of the Sacred Almanac ---- Starting Point of 260-day Cycle. ---- Summary. ---- THE YEAR OF 365 DAYS. ---- Names of the Months. ---- Patrons of the Months. ---- Meanings of Names or Glyphs of Months. ---- Numbering Days of Months. ---- Seating of Months. ---- The Last Day of the Month. ---- Handling of Leap Days. ---- Names of the Year and its Divisions. ---- The Cycle of Fifty-Two Years. ---- Position of Month Glyph. ---- The Year Bearers. ---- Functions of Year Bearers. ---- Concept of Burden. ---- Location of Year Bearers. ---- Correlation of Year Bearers with European Years ---- Shifts in Year Bearers. ---- Grouping of Year Bearers. ---- Summary. ---- METHODS OF RECORDING NUMBERS. ---- Bars and Dots. ---- Head Variants: One to Nineteen. ---- Symbolic Variants: One to Nineteen. ---- Completion (or Zero? ?). ---- Glyph for Twenty ---- (u.v.v.a.) // ILLUSTRATIONEN : The journey of time. - Map of the Maya area. - Glyph formations. - Clauses. - Clauses and variable affixes. - Interchangeability of elements of the count group of affixes. - Day signs: Imix to Kan. - Day signs: Chicchan to Lamat. - Day signs: Muluc to Eb. - Day signs: Ben to Cib. - Day signs: Caban to Ahau. - Ahau {continued) and sundry glyphs. - Derivations of day signs: Imix to Akbal. Affixes. - Derivations of day signs: Kan to Manik. - Derivations of day signs: Lamat to Caban. - Derivations of day signs: Etz'nab to Ahau. - Month signs: Pop to Xul. - Month signs: Yaxkin to Ceh. - Month signs: Mac to Kayab. - Month signs: Cumku and Uayeb, ends of months, and searings of months and years. - Symbol for black and the associations ot the Moan bird and spiral with water. - Old earth god and other deities associated with the conch shell. - Initial Series introductory glyphs: variable elements Pop to Yax. - Initial Series introductory glyphs: variable elements Zac to Cumku and examples of - complete glyphs. - Heads for numbers i through 10. - Heads for numbers n through 19 and for completion, numerical heads in Codex - Dresden, and symbols for numbers. - Geometric (or symbolic) forms of p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. THOMPSON, J. Eric S. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Introduction. Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. 1950. 12"x9", 345pp, 64 plates. Provenance: Smithsonian Institution, in a heavy buckram binding with reinforced hinges, making this a very sturdy and very usable copy. VG condition.

Hardback. No dustjacket. Reprint edition. Very Good condition. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book.

Washington: Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication 589, 1950 Med.4to. xvii,347pp. 64 plates, map, biblio., index. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. [ ].

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. 29 x 22,5 cm, XXII, 347 pp. Avc un frontispice et 64 planches. Relié cartonnage d'éditeur sous jaquette imprimée. Petite déchirure à la jaquette sinon bon exemplaire. Livres.

Tan Wraps. Condition: Good. Photographs/Symbols (illustrator). First Edition. Retired library copy with usual stamps, stickers, labels, and markings. Blind-embossed seal on title/copyright page. Bottom edges are gently moisture stained and rippled, else textblock is clean and tight. Tear to the corners of the spine, moisture stained bottom corners and creasing to corners, moderate character worn. 347pp., including index. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Ex-Library Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 4to. [2], iii-xvi, [2], 1-347, [1], [128] pp. Grey wrappers printed in black on the front wrapper and spine. Illustrated with 64 full-page illustrations at the end of the volume and with a frontispiece. A thorough study of the Mayan civilization, its history, and its written language. Initials and a name on the front cover and first leaf respectively, the volume is slightly warped from use.

Hardcover. From the library of Anthropologist Robert J. Squier. Size: 9.25"x11.75", 347pp., plus 64 black & white plates. Squier's tidy name stamp to ffl, corners bumped, else very good clean & sound condition without dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvii+347+[64] with frontispiece, figures, map and index. Quarto (11 1/2" x 9") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Publication 589 Carnegie Institution of Washington. First edition. In this series of essays Thompson reviews extant knowledge on Maya writing, gives rich comment, and reworks anew the entire field in search of material that may give clues to decipherment. His approach is revealed in the following quotation. In this volume I have tackled the problem of decipherment in what I deem to be a new way, although one which has in it elements which have been tried before. It is my conviction that we shall interpret the glyphs only by relying heavily on the beliefs, the religious symbolism, the mythology, and to a lesser extent the everyday activities of the Maya, because such concepts surely are imbedded in each glyph . . . Argument must be from the known to the unknown, and for that reason many pages are given to elucidating the meanings of the day names and other signs, the names and functions of which are known. All these phases are discussed, linguistic clues are investigated, and the pictorial and graphic qualities of the glyphs themselves are analyzed at length. Thus the author makes an intense dual study of both the ethnology of the ancient Maya and of the morphology of the hieroglyphs, in a search for inter-linkages that may lead to further understanding. Thompson shows that the several calendars, endlessly repeating and interlocking like the gears of a complicated clock, were not just soulless counting devices: The Maya conceived of the divisions of time as burdens which were carried through all eternity by relays of bearers . . . Time was not portrayed as the journey of one bearer and his load, but of many bearers, each with his own division of time on his back. This concept accounts for a host of ethnological ideas suggested in the codices and the stone inscriptions, and mentioned in the books of Chilam Balam. Each period, such as the day, the 260 day cycle, and the katun, had its own group of bearers, usually gods; and the occasion of transfer of the burden of that particular series was an event of note. Period endings were the resting places of the porters. The outstanding example of this Maya idea was the importance of the endings of the twenty-year katuns, commemorated by important ceremonies and the erecting of monuments. At such times the bearer of the incoming katun became a powerful diety, while his predecessor was relegated to comparative obscurity until the cycle repeated itself. Regarding the religious nature of the Maya calendar, the author says, Nowhere else in the world, have the periods of time, from the day upward, been not only deified, but given active personalities and the most important parts on the divine stage. . . The fourth Maya day was the day of the maize god . . . The sun god is not only the sun, he is the day Ahau, he is the number 4. Thus even the numeral itself may be deified. Thompson believes that this thesis of spiritual inter-linkage of living calendars with the Maya pantheon indicates a basic philosophy of the priests. It serves not only in interpretation of the hieroglyphic texts, but also gives an insight into the thought and action of the Maya. Condition: Corners gently bumped with some light edge wear, spine age darkened else a very good copy.

paperback. Condition: very good(-). 65 plates. 4to, pr. wrs., inner hinges strengthened, spine rubbed with a small area of wear in the middle of the spine, pencil annotations on last blank page. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1950. Presentation copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First edition. Very Good+. Comprehensive introductory study of Mayan hieroglyphics: sources of texts; principles of glyphic writing; cycle of 260 days; year of 365 days; methods of recording numbers; long count; distance numbers; anniversaries and katun count; ritualistic and astronomical cycles; moon; soulless mechanisms and magical formulae; aids to decipherment. Bibliography, Index. Silk page ribbon. Dark green cloth with gilt titling on front and spine. Bruises to corners. Toning to ends; bruise to page corners at ends; moderate toning to pages; otherwise interior is clean, crisp, tight, unmarked. xvi, 347 pp. plus approx. 64 pp. b/w plates at rear. Approx. 9.25" x 12". A very nice copy. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.