TOK.p16.r5.c2 = BMM9.p18.r5.c2 25EMC.pdfp29.#12 MHD.AAB.1 MHD.AAB.2
AT? AT AT? aat aat
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PNG Panel 3 U12 Phoenix (“Po”) Panel C6 Phoenix (“Po”) Panel
ya.<[AT]AHK> ya.<[AT]“UHMAN”> ya.<[AT]“UHMAN”>
· No glyphs given in K&H, K&L.
· The meaning is from 25EMC.pdfp29.#12.
· MHD give the meaning as “stinger” and the iconographic origin as “shark tooth with crossed bands”. Note that MHD treats the crossed bands as an integral part of the glyph, but TOK, BMM9 and 25EMC don’t.
· Do not confuse this with the phonetically similar AAT (logogram for “penis”). This logogram is pronounced with a short-a at, while “penis” has a long-a aat.
· Do not confuse this with the phonetically similar AT. Both have a short-a, but the other is a logogram of unknown meaning, used as a rebus in writing words such as atan = “wife”.
· PNG Panel 3 U12 could be a very interesting and creative example of using this logogram with the other AT (of unknown meaning and used as a rebus to write the sound at) infixed. Caution: can we be sure that the two “fins” at the bottom of the “headdress” are related to this “two-finned” at?
o For one thing, the “fins” are pointing down in PNG Panel 3 U12 whereas they are pointing up in the canonical at.
o For another, the cross-bands AT (used as a rebus) is already sufficient to write at, so there is no reason for a second at to be present.
On the other hand, there doesn’t seem to be a reason to have the “two-finned” element in PNG Panel 3 U12: yatan = “the wife of” is frequently written with ya-AT using just the AT with the two crossed bands.