Variant: “ajaw”-face
MC K&H JM TOK.p15.r3.c2
TOK.p6.r4.c4 TOK.p10.r5.c1
TOK.p10.r4.c4
Sub-variants (3)
· A. Single AJAW-face:
o Single upside-down AJAW-face.
· B. Double AJAW-face:
o Two touching, upside-down AJAW-faces.
· C. Double AJAW-face with dots:
o Two single upside-down AJAW-faces separated by three dots.
o The three dots in a triangular formation, touching, triangle pointing down.
Variant: no-“ajaw”-face
JM TOK.p10.r4.c3
MC ~= K&H MC.p83.r1.#2
Sub-variants (2)
· A. Five dots:
o Two larger dots, one at each side.
o With three smaller touching dots in a row, in between.
· B. Three dots:
o Three non-touching dots in a row.
o All three very small dots not touching the main sign (touching the main sign, or slightly larger dots, or touching one another would be more likely to be ma – but tiny size of the dots is the main distinguishing characteristic of this variant of la).
Variant: two na-outlines
TIK Stela 31 A12
AT-E1168-lecture4.t0:07:40
· The na-outline variant is an “older” form.
Variant: skull
TOK.p28.r4.c2 Graham
YAX Lintel 44 A5a
· Caution: YAX Lintel 44 A5a is the only known instance where the skull is right-side up. One should not be too hasty in equating the right-side up and upside-down versions of a glyph. For example, the right-side up bat head is SUUTZ’ and the upside-down one is TZUTZ – semantically and phonetically unrelated to one another.
· In TOK and other instances in MHD, the skull is upside-down (blcodes contains SC3).