Word of the Day: glyph

17 Jul 2023

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/learning/word-of-the-day-glyph.html

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This word has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

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July 17, 2023, 2:00 a.m. ET

glyph \ ˈglif \ noun

1. artwork in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief

2. a small, often stylized graphic symbol that conveys information

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The word glyph has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 13 in “Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above Its Weight’” by Franz Lidz:

For reasons that are still unclear, Sak Tz’i’ and hundreds of other settlements were abandoned and entire regions were left deserted during the ninth century. Although descendants still live in the region, the vagaries of nature buckled temple walls, the tomb robbers disassembled pyramids and a thickening jungle canopy concealed plazas and causeways. Sak Tz’i’ was effectively erased from memory.

Scholars began searching for physical evidence of the realm only in 1994, when epigraphers reading a stela — found a century earlier at a dig in Guatemala — realized that a glyph described the capture of a Sak Tz’i’ king in 628 A.D.

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