·     TOK.p8.r2.c1 is a variant which has both “eyeballs” and a skull?

·     A. Symmetric:

o An “eye” on the left (vertical orientation) or top (horizontal orientation), eye with a “feeler” as pupil.

o Parallel curved ticks on both ends, representing a fin or tail.

o A series of small touching triangles on the right (vertical orientation) or bottom (horizontal orientation), representing the teeth.

·     B. Asymmetric:

o An “eye” on the left (vertical orientation) or top (horizontal orientation), eye with a “feeler” as pupil.

o Parallel curved ticks on one end only, representing the tail, the other end has (stylized) mouth of fish, and a small set of parallel ticks distinctly representing the pectoral fin.

·     This variant is perhaps related to the fish-u variant.

·     Instead of short, parallel, slightly curved ticks representing the tail, there are wavy “squid arms” at only the top end. All three examples above are from BPK.

·     This variant is sometimes called “muluk-u” because if looks like the glyph within the blood cartouche for one of the variants of the day name Muluk.

·     Do not confuse this with lo. This one is lo rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

·     In the case of K7786 PSS-C, Boot-THToK7786&K4669.p2.para2: a rare sign to represent the syllabic sign ’u, namely the opened mouth of a howling dog, probably hinting at the sound “hoo” (or “huuuuuu”; Diego de Landa’s second sign for “u” may be a related case, cf. Bricker 1987).

·     In the case of K4669 A3, it is exactly at the spot between utzihbnajal and jawante’, i.e. between “the painting of” and the word indicating the type of the ceramic object (lak, uk’ib, etc). Syntactically, that word requires the u for the possessed object, so we know that this glyph is in fact u. Furthermore, the “fin” element can be seen on the top right, and the upturned nose is another characteristic feature of the “shark head variant” of u.

·     A. Human-head with ear-cloth.

·     B. Human-head with cross-hatched elements – the two elements (top and right) are very suggestive of logogram JU’, but JU’ does not have any cross-hatched areas on the face.

·     C. Head of a dwarf (YAX lintel 1 B2a).

Notes:

·     The lips are a little bit on the thick side – not extremely so, but a sort of “tendency to thickness”.

·     FK2.p17.r5.c1.#11 = MC.p157.pdfp158.r5.c1.#13 looks a little bit like RAZ Tomb 7 A8, but there it appears to be the last glyph-block, with a “3” preceding, so is unlikely to be u. Also, the Adams drawing seems to have two “centipede teeth” making it seem even less like this head variant of syllabogram u.

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