The Monuments and Inscriptions of Tikal--the Carved Monuments
Tikal Report 33A
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2014
277 pages
978-1-934536-37-7 (ISBN)
Description
This study treats the entire corpus of stone and wood monuments from the Maya site of Tikal and lesser periphery locations. Each description includes details of provenience and condition. Every carved surface is illustrated by a standardized scale drawing, supplemented in almost every case by photographs.
University Museum Monograph, 44
University Museum Monograph, 44
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia, PA
United States
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
142 illus.
142 illus.
File size
22,33 MB
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978-1-934536-37-7 (9781934536377)
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Christopher Jones | Linton Satterthwaite Jr.
The Monuments and Inscriptions of Tikal--The Carved Monuments
Tikal Report 33A
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Christopher Jones is a consulting scholar in the American Section of the Penn Museum. He has worked for the Tikal Project for many years and has published Deciphering Maya Hieroglyphs (1984) and Tikal Report 16, Excavations in the East Plaza of Tikal (1996). Linton Satterthwaite, Jr. (1897-1978) was a Maya archaeologist and epigrapher. He was Curator of the American Section (1955-1969) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and directed excavations at several Maya sites, notably Piedras Negras, Guatemala, and Belize, Honduras. He served as epigrapher for the Tikal Project.
Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Drawings
- Photographs
- PREFACE
- I. INTRODUCTION
- Organization of the Volume
- Descriptions
- Illustrations
- Decipherment of Maya Texts
- Previous Documentation of Tikal Monuments
- Time Periods
- Abbreviations
- II. TIKAL STELAE AND STELA / ALTAR PAIRS
- Tikal Stela 1
- Tikal Stela 2
- Tikal Stela 3
- Tikal Stela 4/Altar 1
- Tikal Stela 5/Altar 2
- Tikal Stela 6
- Tikal Stela 7
- Tikal Stela 8
- Tikal Stela 9
- Tikal Stela 10
- Tikal Stela 11/Altar 11
- Tikal Stela 12
- Tikal Stela 13
- Tikal Stela 14
- Tikal Stela 15
- Tikal Stela 16/Altar 5
- Tikal Stela 17
- Tikal Stela 18
- Tikal Stela 19/Altar 6
- Tikal Stela 20/Altar 8
- Tikal Stela 21/Altar 9
- Tikal Stela 22/ Altar 10
- Tikal Stela 23
- Tikal Stela 24/Altar 7
- Tikal Stela 25
- Tikal Stela 26
- Tikal Stela 27
- Tikal Stela 28
- Tikal Stela 29
- Tikal Stela 30/Altar 14
- Tikal Stela 31
- Tikal Stela 32
- Tikal Stela 33
- Tikal Stela 34
- Tikal Stela 35
- Tikal Stela 36
- Tikal Stela 37
- Tikal Stela 38
- III. TIKAL UNPAIRED ALTARS
- Tikal Altar 3
- Tikal Altar 4
- Tikal Altar 12
- Tikal Altar 13
- Tikal Altar 15
- Tikal Altar 16
- Tikal Altar 18
- Tikal Altar 19
- Tikal Altar 20
- IV. TIKAL COLUMN ALTARS
- Tikal Column Altar 1
- Tikal Column Altar 2
- Tikal Column Altar 3
- V. TIKAL MISCELLANEOUS STONES
- VI. TIKAL WOODEN LINTELS
- Tikal Structure 5D-1-1st (Temple I): Lintel 2 and Lintel 3
- Tikal Structure 5D-2-1st (Temple II): Lintel 2
- Tikal Structure 5D-3 (Temple III): Lintel 2
- Tikal Structure 5C-4 (Temple IV): Lintel 2 and Lintel 3
- Tikal Structure 5D-52 (Structure 10): Lintel
- VII. MONUMENTS FROM TIKAL-AFFILIATED SITES
- Uolantun Stela 1
- El Encanto Stela 1
- Jimbal Stela I/Altar 1
- Jimbal Stela 2/Altar 2
- Ixlu Stela 1
- Ixlu Stela 2/Altar 1
- VIII. CONCLUSION
- Stratigraphic Controls
- Epigraphic and Stylistic Controls
- Chronological Trends
- Dynastic Sequence
- REFERENCES
