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    Shedding New Light on the Maya Stela from Hix Witz in Stuttgart
    Decipherment, Publications, Research Notes
    12. Mai 2020
    Christian Prager
    A Maya stela with a hieroglyphic text and a portrayal of a Maya ruler that is now in the collections of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany (inventory no. M 30751), has received scant attention from scholars to date. Our analysis concludes that the monument illustrates a previously unknown Maya king of the small polity of Hix Witz (English “Ocelot/Margay Hill”) from the early ninth century CE and most likely originates from Zapote Bobal in Petén, Guatemala, or a neighboring site.
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    The Sign 576 as a Logograph for KUK, a Type of Bundle
    Decipherment, Lexicography, Publications, Research Notes
    2. April 2020
    Christian Prager
    The decipherment KUK for sign 576 that has been tested here proves productive for understanding its occurrences in Palenque (yok kuk ch’ajan ‘guardian of the tied bundle’) and for reading the name phrase of the way creature nicknamed “man in the bundle” as kuk winik, kukil winik, or kukan winik ‘bundle person’, ‘rolled-up person’, or ‘person who becomes a bundle’. This interpretation also fits well with the attestation on La Amelia Stela 2, where the captive who has been tied and wrapped up into a bundle is rolled down the stairs in the context of a ritual ballgame. In Palenque, this term also identifies a member of the royal court who was assigned with caring for the royal vesture and regalia and dressing the king or otherwise assisting him with donning his vestments.
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    A Fresh Breeze in the Palace: The Courtly Function of the Yok Waal
    Decipherment, Lexicography, Publications, Research Notes
    20. März 2020
    Sven Gronemeyer
    The present note is about a very rare lexeme in the epigraphic record: waal ‘fan’. Among the handful of examples, a unique context on the polychrome ceramic vessel K2914, the famous Denver Art Museum vase, allows identification of a hitherto unrecognized courtly function: yok waal as the ‘fan-bearer’ or ‘fan-wielder’.
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    Uxul Archive Online
    Announcements, News
    18. März 2020
    Sven Gronemeyer
    To enlarge and enrich the collection in our "Maya Image Archive", we have now uploaded materials from the "Proyecto Arqueológico Uxul" (Campeche, Mexico): drawings and photos of the monuments and inscriptions of the site, almost 680 materials. All images are under CC BY 4.0.
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