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

Translation: “quadripartite badge”; sacrificial plate, sacrificial dish
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of "QB"

0272bv

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A black and white drawing of a cartoon animal Description automatically generated                                                                                     

TOK.p15.r4.c2                    MHD.ZW4.1&2                                   PAL TI CT D5                   PAL TI CT J8                     

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·    Listed in K&L.p45 on the “List of Undeciphered Glyphs”.

·    The iconography is quite suggestive: the bottom part is a plate or bowl (see LAK), and the top has a stingray spine (and other paraphernalia), making the combination a representation of the sacrificial plate used in bloodletting rituals.

·    MHD has only four hits for “blcodes contains ZW4”, two of them being from PAL TI CT (D5 and J8) – the two real-life examples given.

·    Also known as the “quadripartite badge”, it is regularly portrayed in the iconography. Do not confuse this with the “quatrefoil”, which is a totally different glyph, with a totally different meaning. The only thing they have in common is the “ quadri-/quatre-” with the Latin root of “four”.