Emblem glyph

Emblem glyphs are the city arms of the great Maya cities. Some cities have - depending on the time of origin and / or scribe or stonemason - several emblem glyphs and occasionally the glyphs of one city can also be found in the inscriptions of another. As in the case of Carosol, there are the various titulatures of the kings, such as ahau = "lord", na ahau = "noble mistress" or ch'ul ahau = "holy lord", as primus inter pares , ie as "first among equals ”prevailed.

Emblem glyphs regularly consist of three parts - the Ben-Ich-Superfix, the water group prefix and the main sign.

literature

T. Patrick Culbert (Ed.): Classic Maya Political History. Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-56445-X , pp. 142ff.
John Ferguson Harris, Stephen K. Stearns: Understanding Maya inscriptions. A hieroglyph handbook . Univ. Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1997, ISBN 0-924171-41-3 , pp. 71ff.
Robert J. Sharer, Sylvanus Griswold Morley : The ancient Maya . Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford 1994, ISBN 0-8047-2130-0 , pp. 610f.

Web links

Commons : Emblem Glyph - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Peter R. Wolf: Belize. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-7192-4 , p. 105.
↑ Harald Haarmann : Lexicon of the fallen languages . CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47596-5 , p. 132.

[1] Peter R. Wolf: Belize. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-7192-4 , p. 105.

[2] Harald Haarmann : Lexicon of the fallen languages . CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47596-5 , p. 132.