قراءة كتاب Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245

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Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245

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Holden Edward S (Edward Singleton)

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preserved in the same way. It is this rigid adherence to a type, and the banishment of artistic fancy, which will allow of progress in the deciphering of the inscriptions or the comparison of the statues. Line after line, ornament after ornament, is repeated with utter fidelity. The reason of this is not far to seek. This, however, is not the place to explain it, but rather to take advantage of the fact itself. We may fairly say that were it not so, and with our present data, all advances would be tenfold more difficult.

III.
SYSTEM OF NOMENCLATURE.

It is impossible without a special and expensive font of type to refer pictorially to each character, and therefore some system of nomenclature must be adopted. The one I employ I could now slightly improve, but it has been used and results have been obtained by it. It is sufficient for the purpose, and I will, therefore, retain it rather than to run the risk of errors by changing it to a more perfect system. I have numbered the plates in Stephens’s Central America according to the following scheme:

ENGRAVINGS OF VOLUME I.

	Page.
Stone Statue, front view, I have called Plate I	Frontispiece.
Wall of Copan, Plate II	96
Plan of Copan, Plate III	133
Death’s Head, Plate III^a	135
Portrait, Plate III^b	136
Stone Idol, Plate IV	138
Portrait, Plate IV^a	139
Stone Idol, Plate V	140
Tablet of Hieroglyphics, Plate V^a	141
No. 1, Sides of Altar, Plate VI	142
No. 2, Sides of Altar, Plate VII	142
Gigantic Head, Plate VIII	143
No. 1, Stone Idol, front view, Plate IX	149
No. 2, Stone Idol, back view, Plate X	150
Idol half buried, Plate XI	151
No. 1, Idol, Plate XII	152
No. 2, Idol, Plate XIII	152
No. 1, Idol, Plate XIV	153
No. 2, Idol, Plate XV	153
Idol and Altar, Plate XVI	154
Fallen Idol, Plate XVII	155
No. 1, Idol, front view, Plate XVIII	156
No. 2, Idol, back view, Plate XIX	156
No. 3, Idol, side view, Plate XX	156
Fallen Idol, Plate XX^a	157
Circular Altar, Plate XX^b	157
No. 1, Stone Idol, front view, Plate XXI	158
No. 2, Stone Idol, back view, Plate XXII	158
No. 3, Stone Idol, side view, Plate XXIII	158
Great Square of Antigua Guatimala, Plate XXIII^a	266
Profile of Nicaragua Canal, Plate XXIII^b	412

ENGRAVINGS OF VOLUME II.

	Page.
Stone Tablet, Plate XXIV	Frontispiece.
Idol at Quirigua, Plate XXV	121
Idol at Quirigua, Plate XXVI	122
Santa Cruz del Quiché, Plate XXVII	171
Place of Sacrifice, Plate XXVIII	184
Figures found at Santa Cruz del Quiché, Plate XXIX	185
Plaza of Quezaltenango, Plate XXX	204
Vases found at Gueguetenango, Plate XXXI	231
Ocosingo, Plate XXXII	259
Palace at Palenque, Plate XXXIII	309
Plan of Palace, Plate XXXIV	310
Stucco Figure on Pier, Plate XXXV	311
Front Corridor of Palace, Plate XXXVI	313
No. 1, Court-yard of Palace, Plate XXXVIII	314
No. 2, Colossal Bas-reliefs in Stone, Plate XXXIX	314
East side of Court-yard, Plate XXXVII	314
No. 1, Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate XL	316
No. 2, Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate XLI	316
No. 3, Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate XLII	316
Oval Bas-relief in Stone, Plate XLIII	318
Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate XLIV	319
General Plan of Palenque, Plate XLV	337
Casa No. 1 in Ruins, Plate XLVI	338
Casa No. 1 restored, Plate XLVII	339
No. 1, Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate XLVIII	340
No. 2, Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate XLIX	340
No. 3, Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate L	340
No. 4, Bas-relief in Stucco, Plate LI	340
No. 1, Tablet of Hieroglyphics, Plate LII	342
No. 2, Tablet of Hieroglyphics, Plate LIII	342
Tablet on inner Wall, Plate LIV	343
Casa di Piedras, No. 2, Plate LV	344
Tablet on back Wall of Altar, Casa No. 2, Plate LVI	345
Stone Statue, Plate LVII	349
Casa No. 3, Plate LVIII	350
Front Corridor, Plate LIX	351
No. 1, Bas-reliefs in Front of Altar, Plate LX	353
No. 2, Bas-reliefs in Front of Altar, Plate LXI	353
Adoratorio or Altar, Plate LXII	354
Casa No. 4, Plate LXIII	355
House of the Dwarf, Plate LXIV	420
Casa del Gobernador, Plate LXV	428
Sculptured Front of Casa del Gobernador, Plate LXVI	443
Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Plate LXVIII	441
Top of Altar at Copan, Plate LXVIII=V^a	454
Mexican Hieroglyphical Writing, Plate LXIX	454

In each plate I have numbered the hieroglyphs, giving each one its own number. Thus the hieroglyphs of the Copan altar (vol. i, p. 141) which I have called

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