CMGG entry for syllabogram e      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Variant: boulder

                     

MC / K&H / SJ                    JM                           TOK.p12.r1.c3

 

·    Features:

o A boulder outline with (optional) bold walls (halfway from the floor) and ceiling

o Inside: three dots in a triangular formation (with the triangle pointing down), forming a “face”.

·    Not to be confused with the boulder variant of na: that variant of na has three crescents in triangular formation whereas this variant of e has dots (forming a “face”).

 

Variant: animal head

                    

MC                              K&H                               JM

 

·    This is iconographically speaking an aquatic animal, e.g. a frog or a turtle.

·    See K531, where the toad has three dots in the ear.

·    Many examples of the head variant of AHK also have three dots in the ear. Note that the frog in K531 doesn’t have a spiral while the turtle glyphs generally do.

·    So perhaps e is more a turtle than a frog.