Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context: Proceedings of the EAGLE 2016 International Conference (Studi Umanistici, Serie Antichistica 36): 233-246, edited by Silvia Orlandi, Raffaella Santucci, Francesco Mambrini and Pietro Maria Liuzzo. Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice, 2017
No existing digital work environment can sufficiently represent the traditional epigraphic workfl... more No existing digital work environment can sufficiently represent the traditional epigraphic workflow ‘documentation, analysis, interpretation, publication’ for a non-alphabetic writing system. Using the Maya hieroglyphic script, this workflow will be transferred to a digital epigraphy. Digital methods and tools will be developed and reused in a Virtual Research Environment to create a freely accessible, annotated textual corpus, including metadata on cultural and object history and references.
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Welcome to the Maya Image Archive, provided by Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya (TWKM), directed by Nikolai Grube. The Maya Image Archive is intended to host research materials provided by various scholars, such as Karl Herbert Mayer, Berthold Riese, Stephan Merk and the members of the project among others. Comprising image collections with photographs, drawings, notes and manuscripts, the Maya Image Archive allows the user to browse through the results of several decades of research trips through the entire Maya region. Forming the backbone of the Maya Image Archive, the black-and-white photo archive of Karl Herbert Mayer comprises thousands of photographs, dating from 1974 to 2006. During his numerous trips, Karl Herbert Mayer focused particularly on documenting sculpted and painted monuments with iconographic or epigraphic content. For that purpose he not only visited numerous museums and archaeological collections, but also explored the most remote archaeological sites in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. In the near future, the complete collection of Karl Herbert Mayer’s photographs will be made accessible to the public, enhancing and complementing the comprehensive documentation that Karl Herbert Mayer had already provided in his well known series of publications on unprovenanced Maya monuments (published 1978, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995) and hundreds of articles in academic journals.
Moreover, the Maya Image Archive aims to be much more than a simple compilation of documents. In the database, the information attached to the documents has been organized in a coherent metadata schema with its content systematically revised and enriched in order to allow users to efficiently conduct targeted and diverse searches.
Still under construction and continuously extended, the Maya Image Archive is hosted by the project Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya (TWKM) (Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan), established at the Department for the Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts.
Free Access
All media and information presented in the Maya Image Archive is accessable freely and without login. The Maya Image Archive uses the web-based open source database system ConedaKOR to facilitate the administration and presentation of its research materials.
Editiorial Rights
In cooperation with the Digital Research Infrastructure DARIAH-DE the database is made accessable as a DARIAH-DE Web Service via federated Login. The federated login is available for all users with a DARIAH-account. Further, registration to the database is possible on request. Users entering the database of the Maya Image Archive as registered user or via federated login are granted specific editorial rights. These rights include creating their own collections within the archive, and entering additional information to enrich the database. If you have any questions about content edition, registration or federated login, please contact us.
Data and Metadata
All material of the Maya Image Archive has been documented and digitized by members of the TWKM project. With respect to the metadata scheme, the digitized images are presented as the entity type “Medium” which is related to a variety of other entities such as Person, Archaeological Site, Place, Collection or Holder. All entities have several properties and are represented in relation to one another via a graph-based structure.
www.mayadictionary.de
www.diccionariomaya.de
The new website of our project "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan" has been uploaded last week. Information is provided in Spanish, English and German. The goal of our long term project housed at the University of Bonn and funded by the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Science is to create a corpus of all known hieroglyphic texts, which will serve as a basis for the compilation of a dictionary of Classic Mayan. The project is a cooperation between the Department for the Anthropology of the Americas, the eHumanities research network TextGrid at the Göttingen State and University Library (Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen) and the Bonn University Library (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn). It is thus located within the Digital Humanities, linking epigraphic research with information technology. In cooperation with these partners, we develope and create a digital text corpus that generates the comprehensive dictionary of Classic Mayan and its use in writing, which will be published both in digital and printed format. The compilation of the corpus and the dictionary will provide a foundation for the systematic analysis and understanding of the Classic Mayan writing system and its underlying language structure. The machine-readable text corpus is projected as a dynamically organized lexical database that permits complex queries and computer-assisted text analyses.
This paper examines the hieroglyphic text carved on an Early Classic hieroglyphic step found in Copan Structure 10L-11-Sub-12 in 1935. Some portions of the text, like names, emblem glyphs, and dedicatory verbs, have previously been deciphered (cf. Baudez and Riese 1990; Schele 1990; Schele and Grube 1991; Stuart 2004). Examination of old photographs has revealed that said inscription exhibits a dynastic sequence with the name-glyphs of Ruler 1 to Ruler 61). This is a significant discovery, because little is known of the kings in Early Classic Copan, especially the period from Rulers 3 to 6 (cf. Martin and Grube 2000 and 2008:196). According to the epigraphic literature about Copan, the name-glyphs of Rulers 3, 5, and 6 have survived only in this name list and in the gallery of kings represented on Altar Q. The sequence of rulers on the hieroglyphic step from Structure 10L-11-Sub-12 also provides their respective proper names, including the name of Ruler 8, who probably commissioned and dedicated the step during construction of what was presumably his father’s tomb under Structure 11.
Resumen
Un característico bien conocido de las inscripciones del Clásico Tardío de Copán son listados de gobernantes sucesivos – tanto en forma de texto como en representaciones icónicas – como la Escalinata Jeroglífica del Templo 26 y el Altar Q en frente del Templo 16. Durante los años recientes los autores del presente estudio pudieron identificar otros de tal listas en varios monumentos del Clásico Temprano. Se pone el foco en la análisis de la inscripción de la grada esculpida CPN 3033 que fue originalmente descubierto durante las investigaciones por la Institución Carnegie de Washington en el año 1935 bajo del Templo 11 en un nivel fechando al Clásico Temprano. Se presenta evidencia que el texto contiene una lista dinástica que menciona los gobernantes 1 a 6. Un aspecto importante de este hallazgo es el hecho que anteriormente los nombres de gobernantes 3, 5 y 6 solamente se conocía del Altar Q. Además, los textos de la grada del Templo 11-sub-12 y otros fragmentos de monumentos tempranos mencionan los nombres de varios gobernantes escrito en variantes anteriormente no identificados – como los de los gobernantes 2, 3, 5 y 8. Otros resultados del estudio incluyen varias hipótesis acerca de la historia temprana de la dinastía real de Copán – entre ellas el origen iconográfico y el cambio paleográfico del nombre del gobernante 2; el gobernante 5 como el probable protagonista del altar Papagayo; y además la posibilidad que el gobernante 8 comisionó y dedicó el monumento CPN 3033 como parte de la construcción de la posible tumba de su padre, gobernante 7 conocido como Bahlam Nehn.
Welcome to the Maya Image Archive, provided by Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya (TWKM), directed by Nikolai Grube. The Maya Image Archive is intended to host research materials provided by various scholars, such as Karl Herbert Mayer, Berthold Riese, Stephan Merk and the members of the project among others. Comprising image collections with photographs, drawings, notes and manuscripts, the Maya Image Archive allows the user to browse through the results of several decades of research trips through the entire Maya region. Forming the backbone of the Maya Image Archive, the black-and-white photo archive of Karl Herbert Mayer comprises thousands of photographs, dating from 1974 to 2006. During his numerous trips, Karl Herbert Mayer focused particularly on documenting sculpted and painted monuments with iconographic or epigraphic content. For that purpose he not only visited numerous museums and archaeological collections, but also explored the most remote archaeological sites in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. In the near future, the complete collection of Karl Herbert Mayer’s photographs will be made accessible to the public, enhancing and complementing the comprehensive documentation that Karl Herbert Mayer had already provided in his well known series of publications on unprovenanced Maya monuments (published 1978, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995) and hundreds of articles in academic journals.
Moreover, the Maya Image Archive aims to be much more than a simple compilation of documents. In the database, the information attached to the documents has been organized in a coherent metadata schema with its content systematically revised and enriched in order to allow users to efficiently conduct targeted and diverse searches.
Still under construction and continuously extended, the Maya Image Archive is hosted by the project Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya (TWKM) (Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan), established at the Department for the Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts.
Free Access
All media and information presented in the Maya Image Archive is accessable freely and without login. The Maya Image Archive uses the web-based open source database system ConedaKOR to facilitate the administration and presentation of its research materials.
Editiorial Rights
In cooperation with the Digital Research Infrastructure DARIAH-DE the database is made accessable as a DARIAH-DE Web Service via federated Login. The federated login is available for all users with a DARIAH-account. Further, registration to the database is possible on request. Users entering the database of the Maya Image Archive as registered user or via federated login are granted specific editorial rights. These rights include creating their own collections within the archive, and entering additional information to enrich the database. If you have any questions about content edition, registration or federated login, please contact us.
Data and Metadata
All material of the Maya Image Archive has been documented and digitized by members of the TWKM project. With respect to the metadata scheme, the digitized images are presented as the entity type “Medium” which is related to a variety of other entities such as Person, Archaeological Site, Place, Collection or Holder. All entities have several properties and are represented in relation to one another via a graph-based structure.
www.mayadictionary.de
www.diccionariomaya.de
The new website of our project "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan" has been uploaded last week. Information is provided in Spanish, English and German. The goal of our long term project housed at the University of Bonn and funded by the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Science is to create a corpus of all known hieroglyphic texts, which will serve as a basis for the compilation of a dictionary of Classic Mayan. The project is a cooperation between the Department for the Anthropology of the Americas, the eHumanities research network TextGrid at the Göttingen State and University Library (Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen) and the Bonn University Library (Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn). It is thus located within the Digital Humanities, linking epigraphic research with information technology. In cooperation with these partners, we develope and create a digital text corpus that generates the comprehensive dictionary of Classic Mayan and its use in writing, which will be published both in digital and printed format. The compilation of the corpus and the dictionary will provide a foundation for the systematic analysis and understanding of the Classic Mayan writing system and its underlying language structure. The machine-readable text corpus is projected as a dynamically organized lexical database that permits complex queries and computer-assisted text analyses.
This paper examines the hieroglyphic text carved on an Early Classic hieroglyphic step found in Copan Structure 10L-11-Sub-12 in 1935. Some portions of the text, like names, emblem glyphs, and dedicatory verbs, have previously been deciphered (cf. Baudez and Riese 1990; Schele 1990; Schele and Grube 1991; Stuart 2004). Examination of old photographs has revealed that said inscription exhibits a dynastic sequence with the name-glyphs of Ruler 1 to Ruler 61). This is a significant discovery, because little is known of the kings in Early Classic Copan, especially the period from Rulers 3 to 6 (cf. Martin and Grube 2000 and 2008:196). According to the epigraphic literature about Copan, the name-glyphs of Rulers 3, 5, and 6 have survived only in this name list and in the gallery of kings represented on Altar Q. The sequence of rulers on the hieroglyphic step from Structure 10L-11-Sub-12 also provides their respective proper names, including the name of Ruler 8, who probably commissioned and dedicated the step during construction of what was presumably his father’s tomb under Structure 11.
Resumen
Un característico bien conocido de las inscripciones del Clásico Tardío de Copán son listados de gobernantes sucesivos – tanto en forma de texto como en representaciones icónicas – como la Escalinata Jeroglífica del Templo 26 y el Altar Q en frente del Templo 16. Durante los años recientes los autores del presente estudio pudieron identificar otros de tal listas en varios monumentos del Clásico Temprano. Se pone el foco en la análisis de la inscripción de la grada esculpida CPN 3033 que fue originalmente descubierto durante las investigaciones por la Institución Carnegie de Washington en el año 1935 bajo del Templo 11 en un nivel fechando al Clásico Temprano. Se presenta evidencia que el texto contiene una lista dinástica que menciona los gobernantes 1 a 6. Un aspecto importante de este hallazgo es el hecho que anteriormente los nombres de gobernantes 3, 5 y 6 solamente se conocía del Altar Q. Además, los textos de la grada del Templo 11-sub-12 y otros fragmentos de monumentos tempranos mencionan los nombres de varios gobernantes escrito en variantes anteriormente no identificados – como los de los gobernantes 2, 3, 5 y 8. Otros resultados del estudio incluyen varias hipótesis acerca de la historia temprana de la dinastía real de Copán – entre ellas el origen iconográfico y el cambio paleográfico del nombre del gobernante 2; el gobernante 5 como el probable protagonista del altar Papagayo; y además la posibilidad que el gobernante 8 comisionó y dedicó el monumento CPN 3033 como parte de la construcción de la posible tumba de su padre, gobernante 7 conocido como Bahlam Nehn.