Variant: kuch and conch

·    Mnemonic: you stub your t’o(e) on a rock, when you try to kick the snail.

·    Features – a “vertical” bipartite glyph, with two components, stacked:

o Top – a horizontally rectangular, tripartite element “KUCH”:

§ Left: three touching or non-touching dots, in a triangular formation, triangle pointing left.

§ Middle: a KAWAK.

§ Right: three touching or non-touching dots, in a triangular formation, triangle pointing right.

o Bottom – a conch-like shell, with a “spiral” shell, ending in a closed, pointed tip at one end, and a flaring opening at the other:

·    Subvariants (2) – as so often the case, there is a full form and a reduced form:

o A. Full form: as given under “Features” above.

o B. Reduced form: just the top.

·    Thompson considered the reduced form to be an independent glyph and gave it the code T174.

o For some period of time, epigraphers considered this to be a logogram with the reading KUCH.

o I can’t find any standard sources giving KUCH as the reading for T174, but there must be some papers which have such a reading.

o The reduced form of t’o (=“KUCH”) is identical to reduced form of k’o (see k’o for further information).

·    Though not a very common glyph, it’s:

o Quite well established, as it’s listed in K&H, K&L, TOK, BMM9, 25EMC.

o MHD gives it the 3-character code AAA with no match to an existing T-number.

o Bonn gives it the 6-character code 0174bv with variant reduced variant 0174bt.

·    A search in MHD on “blcodes contains AAA” yields 27(!) hits:

o More than half of them (16) spell the verb form t’ohxaj = lets blood? ‘splits’ (translation by MHD).

o About a fifth of them (5) of them spell a proper name T’ol (4) or T’olol (1):

§ There is an example of T’olol on PNG Panel 3 – T’olol Chitam, Muxkan Sajal – the tag for one of the figures portrayed on the panel.

o The remaining 6 are “miscellaneous” (no particular pattern).