0 a picture or symbol that represents a word, used in some writing systems, such as the one used in ancient Egypt:
Workers brushed off moss from ancient limestone slabs covered with glyphs.
As experts translated more glyphs, they learned that Tikal had lost a war with Caracol.
Although an attractive possibility, given the glyph's clear use as a title of palace functionaries, there is little epigraphic suppor t for this reading.
On page 78, the authors question whether the glyphs and figural scene had been re-carved or simply broken.
Several more glyphic compounds with or without k'uhul and ajaw await further evidence before they can be verified as emblem glyphs.
Furthermore, the mostly fruitless attempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts.
