TOK.p21.r4.c2 BMM9.p17.r2.c2 Coll-1 MHD
DPL HS4 Step 1 K2 NAR Stela 46 pH1
? ? ?:NAL ti.<?:NAL>
Graham Graham Graham
YAX Lintel 32 C1 YAX Lintel 53 C1 YAX Lintel 53 E2
ti.<?:NAL> ti.<?:NAL:la> ti.<?:NAL:la>
· No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, 25EMC.
· The logogram is well understood, but the reading is unknown.
· The ‘K2’ glyph-block reference for “plaza” on DPL HS4 Step 1 is tentative as the available drawings haven’t been provided with commonly accepted glyph-block labels.
· There is a strong indication that YAX Lintel 32 C1 and YAX Lintel 53 C1 & E2 are also instances of “plaza” (but where the legs are without visible “knees”). From a purely visual point of view, YAX Lintel 53 C1 & E2 might even be an “inverted olla”. However, it can be safely inferred that they are “plaza” from context:
o There is no IX-K’UH following (required for “inverted olla”).
o The context of the inscription requires a place rather than a person.
· AT-YT2021-lecture17.t0:12:07:
o Explains that DPL HS4 Step 1 is “PLAZA”[la]:NAL (Sim: the “plaza” logogram doesn’t have to end in -l: the la can be an end phonetic complement for NAL).
o Rejects AK’ as a possible reading.
o Suggests that XIB would be an acceptable reading because:
§ SUF Stela 1 has an inscription with CHAK:“PLAZA”:CHAAK, which is a substitution for the name of the god CHAK:XIB:CHAAK.
§ XIB means “fear”, “awe”, and plazas were places which were meant to instil fear and awe (of rulers or gods) in the public.
o A small number of references also give a reading of XIB (which ones?). It is unclear if this is meant to be a different word from XIB = “young man” (and hence just, coincidentally, a homonym), or same word (and hence a variant glyph from the human head used to write XIB).