Variant: flower
TOK.p17.r3.c3
MC K&H JM.p169.5 TOK.p9.r3.c3 K&H = K&L = 25EMC.1
Variant: hand alone
MC JM
Variant: hand holding shell
TOK.p19.r3.c4
· The iconographic origin of this glyph is sometimes described as “hand holding shell” (lost reference).
Variant: head
TOK.p24.r1.c3 1695st
mi
1592st MHD.SNC.1&2
MIH
· Features: anthropomorphic head with a hand cradling the chin.
· Bonn distinguishes two sub-variants:
o 1592st/MIH:
§ A %-sign on the cheek.
§ A lock of hair in the top right.
§ A smaller, but very fancy ear, slightly resembling an obsidian blade.
o 1695st/mi:
§ Three non-touching dots in the shape of a triangle, pointing down, on the cheek.
§ No lock of hair in the top right.
§ A larger, tripartite ear, slightly resembling a syllabogram yu (occupying the entire right side).
Bonn makes a strong distinction between two sub-variants of the head variant – one for mi and one for MIH.
· TOK.p24.r1.c3 goes for the opposite solution and deliberately combines the different characteristics of 1592st and 1695st into a single glyph (implying that this variation is not significant).
o Furthermore, TOK.p24.r1.c3 is glossed only as mi – a MIH reading is not given.
o In this work, Tokovinine gives no MIH readings at all – not for this head variant, nor for the “flower” and “hand holding shell” variants. This could be just an oversight, as in various lectures (e.g. AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:37:40 and AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:50:25) the “flower” and “hand holding shell” variants are glossed as both mi and MIH.
· MHD has both examples of the head variant without the %-sign or 3-dot triangle.
Variant: squid
MHD.MRF.1&2
Graham Graham Graham Graham
YAX Lintel 1 A4 YAX Lintel 3 D3 YAX Lintel 5 A2 YAX Lintel 33 A6
mi.<xi:WINKIL?> mi.<xi:WINKIL?> mi.<*xi?:*WINKIL?:*la?> mi.<xi:WINKIL?>
· This glyph isn’t shown in K&H, K&L, TOK, BMM9, 25EMC.
· Bonn doesn’t seem to have given it a code.
· MHD has assigned it the 3-character code MRF.
o A search in MHD on “blcodes contains MRF” gives 28 hits – so, not common, but also not at all rare.
o Importantly, it’s not regionally restricted:
§ YAX (8 hits) and YAX region (1 hit)
§ Various ceramics (7 hits)
§ SCN (Sacchana, 2 hits)
§ AGT, BPK, CNK, CRC, CRN, NAR, PMT, PSD, TIK (1 hit each).
This is more or less the entire Classic Maya world except for the far south-east (e.g. QRG and CPN).
o The preponderance of hits in YAX is because of the name/title Mix Winkil, which was one of the extended names/titles of Yaxuun Bahlam IV.