CMGG entry for "GLYPH-A"      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Translation: Glyph-A – part of the SS
Part of speech: Noun

Spellings of "GLYPH-A"

                                                                                                                                      

Safronov                              Graham                                   Martin&Tokovinine                   Greene                            Stuart                                              

CRN Panel 3 B8                   NAR Stela 24 C6                    NAR Stela 26 B7                          PAL TC A13                    PAL T19 South Side B7                 

20.9                                       20.10                                       20:10                                            20:10                              <20:ki>.9                                        

 

                                                                                                                

Greene                             Greene                          Safronov                                        Stuart                                   Safronov                               Coll-1 (Stuart)

PAL TFC A12                    PAL TS B12                   Phoenix ('Po') Panel D1               PNG Panel 2 F2                   PNG Panel 3 F1                   PNG Stela 1 F2

20.10                                20:10                             20:10                                              20.9                                       20.10                                    20.10

 

                                                                                                                                 

Stuart                               Stuart                                  Montgomery                         W. Coe                                Graham                                   Safronov

PNG Stela 3 A7               PNG Stela 8 A8                  PNG Stela 36 B7                    TIK Stela 3 B6                     YAX Lintel 29 D3                    Zürich Panel C8

<20:ki>.9                         20.10                                   20:9                                         20.9                                      <20.ki>:10                              <20:ki>.9

 

·     Glyph-A forms one of the standard components of the SS.

·     It gives the number of days (29 or 30) in the lunation which the date of the LC of the event associated with the ISIG falls in, i.e. it gives the number of days in the lunation of the event which the inscription opens with:

o The “20” is hence always present – it’s only a question of whether the WINIK stands alone or has an end phonetic complement of ki.

o The other glyph is hence either “9” or “10”:

§ In the case of “9”, it seems to be mostly the “bar-and-dot” form of “9”.

§ In the case of “10”, it can be either the two bars of the “bar-and-dot” form, or the skull variant.

See Glyph-C for why lunations have either 29 or 30 days.