Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs - Wayeb

Kettunen & Helmke 2011
Appendices
APPENDIX K: AN EXAMPLE OF HIEROGLYPHIC
ANALYSIS
TRANSLITERATION, TRANSCRIPTION, LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS, AND DIFFERENT STAGESS AND
VERSIONS OF TRANSLATING
A SELECTED
PASSAGE (E1 – J2) OF HIEROGLYPHIC STAIR 4, STEP 5,
DOS PILAS, PETEN, GUATEMALA
GLYPHIC
CLAUSE:
(drawing by Stephen Houston)
TRANSLITERATION:
E1: ju-bu-yi / F1: u-to-k’ a / E2: u-pa-ka-la / F2: nu-na / G1: JOL / H1:
CHAK-ki /
G2: u-KAB-[ji]ya / H2: ba-la-ja / I1: CHAN-na / J1: K’ ’AWIL-la / I2: u-CHAN-nu / J2: TAJ-MO’-o
TRANSCRIPTION:
jubuy / utook’ / upakal / nu’n? / [u]jol / cha[h]k /
ukabjiiy / ba[j]laj / chan / k’awiil / ucha’n / taj[al] mo’
MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION:
jub-uy-Ø / u-took’ / u-pakal / nu’n? / u-jol / chahk /
u-kab-Ø-jiiy / baj-l-aj-Ø / chan / k’awiil
/ u-cha’n / taj-al / mo’
MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS:
down-THM-ABS / 3SE-flint / 3SE-shiel ld / mediation?
/ 3SE-skull / (theonym) /
3SE-oversee-ABS-ADV.CLT / hammer-AFT-THM-ABS / sky / (theonym) / 3SE-guardian / torch-REL / macaw
TRANSLATION I:
“got downed, (the) flint, (the) shield of ‘mediation? (is
the) head of Chahk’;
(it is the) overseeing of ‘K’awiil who hammers (in the) sky’, (the) guardian of ‘Torchy Macaw’.”
TRANSLATION II:
“The flint and the shield
of Nu’n Ujol Chahk got toppled;
it was overseen by Bajlajj Chan K’awiil,
the ‘guardian’
of Tajal Mo’.”
TRANSLATION III:
“The army
of Nu’n Ujol Chahk was toppled by Bajlaj Chan K’awiil, the captor of Tajal Mo’.”
TRANSLATION IV:
“Nu’n Ujol Chahk was defeated by Bajlaj Chan K’awiil.”
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