Heiroglyphics for Mayan numbers

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Is there anyone able to help me with these?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_numerals

 

Google has font for displaying them without using images.

 

Base-20 conversion is  number 1 + number 2 * 20 + number 3 * 20 * 20 and so on. From bottom to top.

 

Technically hieroglyph is Egyptian. Does not apply to pictograms used by other civs.

Thank you.  Dots and sticks are not what I am asking about. I am asking about the face hieroglyphs that were also used by the Mayans.  And they are hieroglyphs.

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Oklahoman

Thank you.  Dots and sticks are not what I am asking about. I am asking about the face heiroglyphs that were also used by the Mayans.  And they are heiroglyphs.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hieroglyphic

 

adjective

Also hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented

 

Since you ask same question on coin and banknote forum, I assume you have coin or banknote which uses them or you expect to find Mayan historians all over the planet. 

The word hieroglyphs has been applied to several other cultures pictorial writings since the 1800s…so Indus, Hittite, MAYAN, among others…

 

I need help with face glyphs used in Mayan hieroglyphics.  Thank you.

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The academic in me is coming out here. Technically you are both correct. Hieroglyphics used on its own is generally a reference to the ancient Egyptian writing. The term is not exclusive to ancient Egypt though. There is most definitely a thing called Mayan hieroglyphics and is generally seen as having come from the ancient Olmec. See below.

 

The Maya hieroglyphic writing system was a sophisticated combination of pictographs directly representing objects and ideograms (glyphs) expressing more abstract concepts such as actions, ideas and syllabic sounds. Maya writing has survived on stone carvings, stucco, various manufactured artefacts, and codices.

Maya Writing - World History Encyclopedia

 

www.worldhistory.org/article/655/maya-writing/

 

Oklahoman, if you haven't found this site, maybe it has what you are looking for.

https://planetarchaeology.co.uk/maya-number-system/

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