·     Do not confuse Baax Witz with Hix Witz:

o Hix Witz (= Zapote Bobal):

§ Was a polity immediately to the north of YAX.

§ The 4^th wife of Yaxuun Bahlam IV, Ix Mut Ajaw, had the additional name/title Ix Hix Witz Ajaw.

§ Nelson-PhD.p26-34.pdfp42-50 shows where Hix Witz is located – a little distance away from the banks of the Usumacinta River.

o Baax Witz (= Xultun):

§ Was in the far north-east corner of the department of Petén in modern Guatemala.

§ Ix Baax Witz Ajaw is named as the wife of Tayel Chan K’inich – the ruler of Ik’a (MTL) – in a scene on K4996 where they both receive tribute from three Lakams.

§ Ik’a is also in the department of Petén in modern Guatemala, so it makes sense that the Ik’a ruler had a wife from Xultun.

·     The main sign at the bottom right of the FUNBA Plate (MS5320) glyph-block M looks more like TUUN than WITZ, but it is in fact WITZ:

o Baax Witz is a known polity / toponym.

o Polyukhovych&Looper-aPftXA.p6.pdfp6.para2.l+2: While this second grapheme looks like T528 TUUN “stone,” it can be identified as T529 WITZ “mountain” by comparison with the title sequence of the same lady, who is named as the owner of a cylinder vase in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Figs. 7, 8; accession number M.2010.115.616; MS1721; K5976). In this example, the lady is stated to be an ajaw of Baax Witz, the ancient name for Xultun (Garrison and Stuart 2004:Fig. 9b; Houston 1986; Matteo and Krempel n.d.; Prager et al. 2010).2 In the example of the FUNBA plate, the WITZ identification of this sign may be indicated by the slight “dimple” on the right-hand side.

·     The reading of K4996 I-J is from MHD. There is no way I could have distinguished these glyphs by myself. It is also the only hit when searching on “bllogosyll contains ba xi” (more hits with clearer examples would have helped support the reading).