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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
Subvariants (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 subvariant with completely internal “depression” and the subvariant with the “depression” connected to the perimeter as both being po. In contrast, TOK keeps them separate and reads the subvariant 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:
o This variant is easy to confuse with AJAW or TE’ in the context of EG’s or titles.
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