MAYAN EPIGRAPHY AND RELATED
ICONOGRAPHY LECTURES SERIES
(archaeology, art, iconography, epigraphy, Motagua
Maya, Tiquisate, Protoclassic, Early
Classic, Late Classic)
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Mesoamerican
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Museo Popol Vuh
Let archaeologists teach you how to read the
ancient Mayan hieroglyphic texts on 4th through 9th century Maya
vases, bowls and plates.
Open to everyone
If you are curious about the meaning of Mayan hieroglyphic writing,
come to Brevard Community College, and we will work together with
you to learn and understand the thousand year old inscriptions.
The F.L.A.A.R. Photo Archive has an impressive photographic archive
of unpublished Maya hieroglyphics inscriptions available for you.
We have been photographing Mayan glyphs for over thirty years,
so you can count on having an ample selection available to you.
F.L.A.A.R. has the only digital rollout system in the world which
is dedicated to recording Mayan hieroglyphs. The digital format
allows observation of detail which is not easily visible in an
old fashioned photograph. F.L.A.A.R. has infrared rollout photographs
as well. Come to sunny Florida and escape the winter. The Bee
Line Expressway (Route 528) goes directly from the Orlando International
Airport towards our campus in Cocoa, located immediately adjacent
to Cocoa Beach and just south of Cape Canaveral.
Epigraphy is the study of the meaning of hieroglyphic writing.
Many glyphs are on the Late Classic vases, bowls, and plates,
and we can easily learn the key hieroglyphs, such as the word
for cacao. No prior knowledge of Mayan hieroglyphic decipherment
is required. This is not a technical session on phoneticism, but
a slide show of exquisite examples of the best artwork produced
by Classic Maya scribes.
Iconography is the study of meaning in art, specifically to learn
to recognize how to identify the different Maya deities and mythical
monsters. Whereas Chac had a long nose, not all long-nosed deities
represent Chac. The so-called Chac on Tikal's North Acropolis
is actually the head of the Principal Bird Deity.
Thursday, February 5, 1998
Lectures on Mayan Epigraphy, Related Iconography,
and Archaeology, Part I
Beginning at 10 a.m., concluding at 6 p.m. Moore MultiCultural
Center, adjacent to WBCC-TV (you will see the TV tower). Friday
night and all weekend are in the Fine Arts Center, but the pre-weekend
and post-weekend FLAAR Photo Archive sessions are in the Moore
MultiCultural Center. You can see the tall TV antenna from everywhere
on campus. This building is also next door to the Vocational Building,
where FLAAR is situated in Room V-199. But registration Thursday
morning is in the Moore building.
Dr. Barbara MacLeod and Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth will
teach you how to read the Primary Standard Sequence hieroglyphs
on vases, plates, and bowls, AD 400-900. Dr. Joseph Ball
will be bringing exotic PSSequences which have not yet been published.
The F.L.A.A.R. Photo Archive will present PSSequences never before
published.
Did we make a mistake producing this image? No! This is a rare
Maya PSSequence written in reverse script. Direct digital photography
by Nicholas Hellmuth, F.L.A.A.R. We also have a complete rollout
of this as well as rollouts of all the bowls and vases on all
these symposium pages.
Using computer technology, we can quickly mirror the image, and
present it in a more easily and normally read fashion, which is
read from left to right, with the heads facing left.
Friday, February 6, 1998
Museo Popol Vuh
Mayan Hieroglyphic Decipherment, Part II
Beginning at 9:45 a.m., concluding at 5:30 p.m.
This program is suitable for all ages and backgrounds. We provide
gentle instruction, starting from the beginning, to help you to
learn to read, and enjoy, Mayan glyphs from the fabled photo archive
of Dr Nicholas Hellmuth, FLAAR at BCC.
The rollout above is from the Museo Popol Vuh. All
images on this web site are copyright.
BCC portion begins at 6:30 p.m. An Evening of Public Archaeology
Lectures ending at 8:30 p.m. Fine Arts Center
Schedule
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All of the Maya Symposium Events are open to the
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Events of Feb. 5th and 6th and Feb. 9th onward are held in
the Moore Multi-Cultural Center, next to WBCC-TV television station,
on the Cocoa campus of Brevard Community College.
(archaeology, art, iconography, epigraphy, Motagua
Maya, Tiquisate, Protoclassic, Early
Classic, Late Classic)
complete directory
of Mayan vase rollout photographs; rollout
photos by Web site
Mesoamerican
art history and archaeology
research is easier and more
productive if done in digital
format.
page updated March 16, 1999, links added July 7, 1999