Variant: boulder

·    Features:

o A boulder outline, “vertically rectangular”, i.e., the long axis of the rectangle is vertical.

o Within the boulder, one oval on the lower part of each side, left and right, touching the sides.

§ The long axis of the oval is vertical.

§ The ovals can be bold or non-bold.

§ On the central axis of each oval is a vertical row of three non-touching dots – the oval and dots being the “boniness” property marker. So there are two boniness properly markers, one on each side of the boulder outline.

o Within the boulder, at the centre of the top, a circular element – either:

§ An upside-down feeler, with protector, or

§ A semi-circular “grip”, or

§ A LEM-like element.

o Optionally, in the centre of the boulder outline:

§ A wavy vertical line forming a “spine”, or

§ An inverted-U or inverted-V, with inward-curving sides, coming up from the middle of the floor, or

§ A single dot hanging from the bottom of the protected feeler or LEM-like element, along with a wavy vertical line, hanging from the bottom of the dot. (This last could be the equivalent of the wavy spine in other instances.

o Optionally, an indentation in the middle of the top.

·    Do not confuse bo with BAAK (when the latter is written with the long-axis vertical):

·    MHD statistics – a search in MHD on “blcodes contains HM1” (2025-04-23) yields 69 hits. While this is not a huge number, it’s by no means an obscure or rare syllabogram:

o About 10 or more of these hits are on smaller objects (mostly vases, but also a human skull, a pendant, and a shell ornament).

o The remaining hits are more “monumental” – lintels, panels, stelae, murals, etc.

o The inscriptions come from the following sites: AGT, ALS, AML, CHN, CML, CNC, CNJ, COB, CPN, CRC, EDZ, EKB, ITB, IXZ, MQL, NAR, NTN, PAL, PLM, PNG, QRG, RBC, SBL, SDP, TIK, UAX, UXM, XCA, XLM, which means the glyph occurs right through the Classic Maya world.

·    Usage:

o There are 15 occurrences which write the word bohb = “coyote”, part of the name of various personages, e.g.: Sak Baah Bohb, K'an Bohb Ti Chih Tayel Nichan K'inich Ni-?, Bohb Hix, K'an Bohb Took', Ucha'an Bohb (Took'), Sak Bohb?.

o There are 7 occurrences which write the name/title Ajaw Bot:

§ 5 from AML (La Amelia).

§ 2 from SBL (Seibal).

o There are 13 occurrences which write words derived from kob, a verb which means “to repeat”, so either:

§ ukobow: verb, “he repeated it”, or

§ ukobil: noun, “his repetition”, “the repetition of”.