Variant: crest

·    No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, TOK, 25EMC. It is however given in BMM9, and by MHD and Bonn. This suggests that it’s quite a recent decipherment.

·    There seems to be two subvariants:

o A. Scroll and two slanting bars:

§ MHD.32Ms.1&2: read as either wu or hu.

§ 1772st: read only as wu.

o B. Scroll and “comb”:

§ MHD.32Ms.3: read as either wu or hu.

§ 0104st: not given a reading.

I.e., Bonn treats the tripartite “scroll with two slanting bars” as being a different glyph from the bipartite “scroll with comb”, assigning them different codes: the first “inherited” from Thompson (read wu), the second “newly declared” (with no known reading). In contrast, MHD treats them as being variants of the same glyph, with a reading of either wu or hu.

·    An element which resembles this can be seen at the bottom of a CHAN-like glyph in LAC Panel 1 A3b and in PAL Temple 19 Platform Passage S-1 B1.

o It is not a rotated form of wu/hu. This is because it consists of a protected scroll on the left, with two slanting bars on the right: if it were a rotated form of wu/hu, then the scroll would be on the right.

o It is not wu/hu (unrotated) attached to the bottom of the main sign rather than to the top because it has an anticlockwise scroll: the element below the “CHAN” has a clockwise scroll.

In that context, it isn’t CHAN:wu or CHAN:hu, but is instead a logogram in itself – a variant of PIK. This is further confirmed by the fact that:

o In the LAC and PAL examples, it occurs in the glyph-block immediately after the ISIG, where logogram PIK is expected, with a numerical coefficient.

o MHD has assigned it its own 3-character code, as a logogram: ZHA = PIK.