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The Jog and the Jaguar Signs in Maya Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Tatiana Proskouriakoff*
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Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Abstract

Graphemes T-757 and T-788 (Thompson 1962) are identified as a single sign representing a rodent. Intermediate forms are cited, the use of the sign in glyph T-1.60:757 is discussed, and its substitution for T-501 is noted. It is suggested that before Thompson’s catalog can be successfully used for statistical comparisons it needs to be converted to a catalog of signs by investigations of the use of the individual graphemes in context.

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American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 247 - 251
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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