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Glyph   Listen
noun
Glyph  n.  
1.
(Arch.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.
2.
(Archaeol.) A carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted.





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"Glyph" Quotes from Famous Books



... phonetic value of the written characters or hieroglyphs, it is proper that the writer's position on this point should be clearly understood. He does not claim that the Maya scribes had reached that advanced stage where they could indicate each letter-sound by a glyph or symbol. On the contrary, he thinks a symbol, probably derived in most cases from an older method of picture writing, was selected because the name or word it represented had as its chief phonetic element a certain consonant sound or syllable. If this consonant element ...
— Day Symbols of the Maya Year • Cyrus Thomas


Words linked to "Glyph" :   glyptography, glyptic art


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