Panel 12 from Piedras Negras is a key record of Early Classic political relations in the Usumacinta region. Its figural scene, framed by rows and columns of incised glyphs, shows a standing ruler facing three bound and kneeling captives, with a fourth prisoner shown set off from the rest behind the royal warrior. [...]
Archive for August, 2007
The Captives on Piedras Negras, Panel 12
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Knots, Skulls and Jaguars
Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dusting off a minor paleographical tidbit others have probably noticed:
A familiar royal name in the history of the Usumacinta kingdoms is “Knot-eye Jaguar.” This nickname came about as a convenient term of reference, based on the form of the name glyph: a jaguar’s head with a strap or cord running from its eye up to [...]
Drawing of a Text from Jonuta, Tabasco
Posted in Uncategorized on August 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just a brief post this time, to share a drawing I made some years ago of an interesting inscription from Jonuta, Tabasco. The beautiful panel fragment on which these glyphs appear was published in Proskouriakoff’s Classic Maya Sculpture (Figure 69b) in a painfully small reproduction of a photograph taken sometime in the 1940s by [...]
