CMGG entry for "BT"      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Translation: “bone throne”
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of "BT"

                                                                               

TOK.p18.r3.c1               JM.p248.#2                    MHD.1B7.1&2                                         0150st                                            T150b                                     T150c

?                                      TZ’AM                              -                                                                  -      -                                               -

 

                                                                             

Teufel-PhD.p375.pdfp375                         Teufel-PhD.p375.pdfp375                            Teufel-PhD.p375.pdfp374                        

PNG Stela 12 D9a                                        PNG Stela 12 D18b                                         PNG Stela 12 #22                                           

“BT”.<SUUTZ’:?>                                         “BT”.SUUTZ’                                                    “BT”.SUUTZ’

 

                                                                 

Looper-LW.p12.pdfp25.fig1.11                Looper-LW.p12.pdfp25.fig1.11                Looper-LW.p12.pdfp25.fig1.11

QRG Stela C B9                                            QRG Stela C B11                                          QRG Stela C A13                                           

<HIX:“BT”>.<TUUN:AJ>                              <CHAN:“BT”>.<TUUN:ni>                          <HA’:“BT”>.<TUUN:ni>

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, BMM9, 25EMC.

·    The iconographic origin of this glyph might be bones bound together and covered in cloth, forming a “platform” for sitting on. Hence the description “bone throne”. Looper-LW refers to them as “platforms”. This distinction might be more due to Western European conceptualizations of these two words than to an actual difference in the nature of the object referred to.

·    Pronunciation:

o JM.p248.#2 gives the pronunciation as TZ’AM.

o Teufel-PhD.p370&p371&p372 equates the glyphs on PNG Stela 12 to T150 and also reads them as TZ’AM.

o TOK gives the pronunciation of TOK.p12.r3.c1 & TOK.p12.r3.c2 (“cushion throne”) as TZ’AM vs. TOK.p18.r3.c1 (“bone throne”) as “?”. This suggests that these are no longer considered to be the same word and that TZ’AM is the reading of only the “cushion throne”.