Glyphic Evidence for a Dynastic Sequence at Quiriguá, Guatemala
- 20 January 1962
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 27 (3) , 323-335
- https://doi.org/10.2307/277799
Abstract
This paper attempts to establish the rules governing the recognition of names in the Maya script, particularly with regard to their glyphic context. These rules are applied to the Quiriguá inscriptions; glyph clauses pertaining to three rulers are established with some probability and two others are suggested more doubtfully. The founder of the Quiriguá dynasty was apparently related to an identified ruler at Copán, and it is shown that at least one and probably two later rulers at Copán share some names and titles with the Quiriguá rulers. It is suggested that the family name of the rulers of Copán and Quiriguá was caan, sky.Keywords
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