Variant: boulder
MC K&H JM TOK.p12.r3.c1 [TZ’AM]
MC K&H TOK.p12.r2.c2
TOK.p12.r2.c1 BPK-LAC Unprovenanced Column D4
Sub-variants (3) – the term “depression” is used because the boulder outline is being viewed as a cushion, and the element in the middle is seen as the depression in the middle of the cushion (this may or may not be the true iconographic origin of this glyph):
· A. Depression completely internal.
· B. Depression connected to perimeter by two long curved arcs (the continuation of two opposite “horizontal” sides of the depression).
Many of the standard sources treat both the sub-variant with completely internal “depression” and the the sub-variant with the “depression” connected to the perimeter as both being po. In contrast, TOK keeps them separate and reads the sub-variant with the completely internal depression as TZ’AM (TOK.p12.r3.c1) and the other as po (TOK.p12.r2.c2).
· C. Depression replaced by short vertical band or line, with two touching dots on one side (slightly resembling the internal element of TE’), connected to perimeter by two long curved arcs.
o That this is po is known from substitutions, e.g. in Glyph-X:
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Grube-FoGX.p9.fig16c |
Grube-FoGX.p9.fig16b |
Safronov CRN Panel 3 B7 |
o This variant is easy to confuse with AJAW or TE’ in the context of EG’s or titles.