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