132 LaMiCuS 2 (2018) Agnieszka Hamann Faculty of Artes Liberales University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland Multimodal meaning-making in Classic Maya inscriptions Maya glyphic inscriptions of the Classic Period (250-900 AD) are usually pairings of text and image which were created as one communicative act by expert users of semiotic resources. Maya scribes used a wide repertoire of literary and artistic means to encode the information they intended to send. Based on the methodology proposed by Bateman, Wildfeuer and Hiippala (2017), and building on my previ- ous project on multimodality (Hamann 2017), this paper proposes a multimodal approach to the analysis of Maya inscriptions. In particular, it focuses on how the identifed modalities cooperate to deliver the message, while also analysing the text/image pairings. It argues that the text and image cannot be separated and need to be analysed together, as they may change the reading of one another. To capture the entirety of the message in the selected inscriptions (Emiliano Zapata Panel, Sculpted Stone 1 from Bonampak and Altar 5 from Tikal), it analyses four dimen- sions of each text: the layout of the image and text and their interaction, highly conventionalized gestures adopted by the depicted persons, pictorial signs used within the image, and, last but not least, the text itself. Tis proposed methodolog- ical approach demonstrates that Maya texts were indeed multimodal products of culture, where the reader/viewer had to perform the composition of meaning-mak- ing possibilities, with each modality contributing towards the common commu- nicative goal. abstract https://doi.org/10.32058/LAMICUS-2018-005