Written in hieroglyphic form with accompanying portraitures, the historical texts are based on an early form of the Maya language, probably Chol. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part one] Reference
Having first described the Stabl Antar, he says: – In another grotto I found twice over the name of the city written in hieroglyphic characters, Çi-ou-t. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
After the fall of the Hittite Empire, so-called hieroglyphic Hittite was used to write inscriptions in the Luwian language. From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture] Reference
And very many of the Egyptian books are written in this kind of broken-down hieroglyphic, which is called "hieratic," or priestly writing. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt] Reference
"Well," came the quick reply from the cyberstacks, the raising of an eyebrow almost audible in the e-mail, "first: hieroglyphic is the adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of the Crypt - Arthur Phillips talks about how he came to write The Egyptologist] Reference
Locked up in hieroglyphic!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Hand] Reference
The printing is stopped for it, also for the answer about a hieroglyphic which is unintelligible in. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
It is called "hieroglyphic," which means "sacred carving," and it is nothing but little pictures from beginning to end. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt] Reference
· analyze sequence of sign list (limited to supported "hieroglyphic" capabilities). From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
As a hieroglyphic character you signified the enemy. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Nut, were expressed in hieroglyphic as pots of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
"Perhaps it is all hieroglyphic, or syllabic writing.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Mr.F. Ll. Griffith tells me that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for the verb. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
The pictorial hieroglyphic is the simple picture of the thing signified. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
But the Incas had no hieroglyphic or pictorial system of recording events. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Specimens of their hieroglyphic writings have been given in the preceding chapter. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
These months received each a name, and were of course designated by a hieroglyphic. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The hieroglyphic name, which has been read upon the monument, proves it to be that of. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Each individual is sitting cross-legged on a hieroglyphic, and has a ponderous head-dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The upper left hand square containing the hieroglyphic for wind refers to this destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The characters used by the Egyptians were of three kinds -- hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In the Wadi Abba stands a rock temple with hieroglyphic inscriptions stating that Sethos, father of. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The lines on the paper made a sort of hieroglyphic puzzle which it was quite impossible to decipher. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
To the left of this square, crowded between it and the pointer, can be seen the hieroglyphic of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
We give a plate showing the name, order in which they occur, and hieroglyphic symbol of the Maya months. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
To express the dates, they of course painted the hieroglyphic of the day, and dots for the number of days. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Not necessarily meaning alphabetical writing, because hieroglyphic records have furnished much true history. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The third destruction of the world was by rain, the lower left hand square containing the hieroglyphic of rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
At his day pagan hieratic and hieroglyphic symbols only were written on papyrus, or carved and engraved on stone. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
At the mines of Sighait is an hieroglyphic inscription recording the visit of a royal scribe and a mine inspector. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
She points with her Milton to a singular hieroglyphic, in a wiry black frame, resting on the marble-painted mantelpiece. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
On the opposite bank of the stream, to which the footsteps lead, is the hieroglyphic of Culhuacan, "the curved mountain.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
There are also hieroglyphic figures far up on the rocks of Lake Chelan, which is supposed to have once been an arm of the Columbia. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Between this square and the pointer is crowded in the hieroglyphic of one Calli, referring to the feast in memory of this destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The principal figures about this map are the hieroglyphic names of various places where they stopped, and the time spent at each place. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
That land of wonders, Egypt, abounds in hieroglyphic inscriptions, going back, as is agreed by modern scholars, to the year 2000 before the. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
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