As was faintly recognisable in the early photograph by Alfred Maudslay (Maudslay 1889-1902: pl. While the right half of C3 is clearly readable as T4 NAH T60:528 hi, nah, „house, building“, the left half appeared less clear.
This term constitutes the collocation in C3 (Figure 1), which had not been completely identified in previous drawings of the inscription due to its ’squeezed‘ rendering by the sculptor. Palenque Tablet of the Sun (PAL TS), blocks C1-D6 – left: 3D mesh rendering with Lambertian radiance scaling, right: Drawing by Sven Gronemeyer, 2015 2015), revealed another term previously unknown in the Maya epigraphic record.įigure 1. Review of a 3D-model rendered from a structured light 3D-scan of a fibre-glass cast made from Maudslay’s mould of the left part of the panel from the sanctuary of the Temple of the Sun at Palenque, which is housed in the Bonner Altamerika-Sammlung (BASA) (Gronemeyer et al. of Palenque provide us with a number of extended narrative texts that are rich sources of Classic Maya terms for various classes of objects, used both in simple descriptions and in metaphorical contexts. This last point essentially concerns the aspirated vowel nucleus, as in e.g. We therefore apply a broad transliteration and a narrow transcription, but only as far as sounds can be reconstructed by methods from historical linguistics. Before the project has collected sufficient epigraphic data and can test previous proposals against the existing evidence or formulate new hypotheses, we prefer to pursue an unprejudiced approach in terms of the epigraphic analysis and to be rather conservative, while also noting that the transcriptional spelling in one model may also vary between authors. We neither neglect previous research nor entirely dismiss the possibility of a quantitative Classic Mayan vowel system and its orthographic indication. There are two main reasons for this approach: 1) although both proposals operate under similar premises, their conclusions are rather distinct and 2) no consensus on the mechanisms of disharmonic spellings has yet been reached, resulting in alternative views on the reasons underlying the phenomenon of vowel disharmony (e.g. The inscriptions 1) This research paper abstains from indicating or reconstructing vowel complexity on the basis of supragraphematic vowel disharmony, as has been proposed in two studies (Houston, Stuart & Robertson 1998, Lacadena & Wichmann 2004). DOI: Elisabeth Wagner 1, Sven Gronemeyer 1,2 & Christian Prager 1ġ Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
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