[Aztlan] False writing?

[Justin Kerr]

Dear Mario
It is extremely difficult to determine the context of a text without the
image. But there are possibilities.
1) The vessel could be a complete fake.
2) The text was badly eroded and someone tried to fix it
3) Assuming the vase is real, from your description, I make an assumption
the vase is from the Southern area i.e. Honduras or El Savalador. There are
depictions of black deities, but the text on these vases are most often what
has been described as pseudo glyphs, that is, writing which attempts to
mimic Mayan script but may be meaningless. 
You can see examples of such cases in the Maya vase Database
http://research.famsi.org/kerrmaya.html
You can search for Copador, Southern Maya or enter this string "4932 or 4935
or 5916". Examples of these vessel excavated at Copan can be found by
entering "copador and copan" Enter without the quote marks.
Justin Kerr

-----Original Message-----
From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
On Behalf Of mario malo
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:58 AM
To: Aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: [Aztlan] False writing?

Listeros:    I came upon a picture of a Mayan vase, the caption read: Mayan
God M always in black with false writing on top.  The glyphs on top where
writings I had not seen, Question, what is the meaning of false writing?
Thank you, Mario Malo
 
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