We can now report a sizeable archive of rollouts of Chama style pots with hieroglyphs, including a text on an unusual Chama pot which is a low bowl. We did the digital imaging in Germany of the digital file we had photographed elsewhere the year before. As you read this, the F.L.A.A.R. photo crew is at work with the digital rollout camera somewhere in the world, indeed here are some other Chama area and Nebaj area texts recently photographed. If every museum had a wide format color inkjet printer it would be so much easier to study art history of pre-Columbian civilizations. These large images are more effective than a slide show.
Students can actually get close to the vase rollout and study the hieroglyphs in detail.
It is so much easier for epigraphers to decipher the phonetic details if the hieroglyphic inscription is reproduced at a size large enough to see the inscription clearly.