·     The long-i in the second syllable of Bik’iil is probably because of the disharmonic spelling of the last two syllabograms of bi-k’i-la.

·     In the example of PNG Burial 5 Shell Plaques J2, the glyph at the bottom right of the drawing doesn’t look much like a k’i, but the photograph indicates that it probably is k’i – there is a series of short, thin, parallel lines on the left side, indicating the (feathers of the) “wing” of k’i. Pitts-BHPN.p114.pdfp114 transliterates IX-AJ-bi-ka?-la, but the author might not have had access to the photograph (or might have reached a different conclusion concerning the presence of the parallel lines).

·     AT-YT2021-lecture25.t0:27:49: Bik’iil was an important location in the city [of PNG], where carvers lived.

·     AT-E1168-lecture25.t0:40:10: Bik’iil is a very important place to PNG. It is part of PNG or one of the smaller centres right next to it, where all the sculptors lived. So it’s a centre of production of crafts – the “industrial heartland” of the PNG kingdom….

·     PNG Panel 3 is a panel showing and describing a feast. It has references to two individuals from Bik’iil (“Aj Bik’iil”):

o Wajat Nak’aak (I’1-J’1): his status/title/function/position is unclear, but he might not have been a carver.

o Yahk (Kan?) Chaak (C’’): he was one of the individuals present at the feast portrayed in the iconography; he was a sajal, identified as such by a tag, and also might not have been a carver.

·     PNG Stela 12 commemorates the victory of PNG and MAR over PMT. The ruler portrayed is Itzam K’an Ahk IV?. The names of eight carvers are (more lightly incised) in the “background” in the common pattern of “Yuxul <X> Aj <Y>”, where <X> is the name of the carver and <Y> is the place he originates from. In three of the eight such yuxul-expressions, the carver has Aj Bik’iil as their place of origin. The three Bik’iil carvers are:

o Juun Nat Omotz (E1-E4/glyph-block-#1-#4).

o Wa ? Nal Chaak (G1-G4/glyph-block-#9-#12).

o K’in Lakam Chaak (I1-I4/glyph-block-#15-#18) – he is one of the two people from Bik’iil named in PNG Throne 1 (the other Bik’iil person was not a carver) and one of the two carvers of that monument (the other carver was not from Bik’iil).

·     PNG Throne 1 has the names of two carvers, one of whom is from Bik’iil (“Aj Bik’iil”). The Bik’iil carver is:

o K’in Lakam Chaak (A1-A4) – he is one of the three Bik’iil carvers of PNG Stela 12.

·     The Cleveland Panel (despite not being tremendously large or complex) has two carvers (same as PNG Throne 1), and both carvers are from Bik’iil:

o K’in Lakam Chaak (I1-I4).

o Juun Nat Omootz (J1-J4).

·     With so many carvers from “Bik’iil”, it’s worth wondering if this might not be a title rather than a toponym. That 2-3 carvers might come from a particular place is entirely possible, but with as large a number as seems to be the case, this borders on the unlikely. The possibility that it might be a title rather than a toponym was suggested by Unk-SSTABMM, in reference to the two columns of glyph-blocks on CLK Stela 51 with artist signatures, although in this case, neither end in bik’iil, but instead in other more established titles. However, that was sufficient to raise the question whether Aj Bik’iil itself might also be a title, rather than a “place of origin” description – Unk-SSTABMM.p4.para1: Each artist signature consists of four glyph blocks (read top to bottom) beginning with the phrase ‘his carving’ and concluding with a scribal title. Dorota Bojkowska: think of it as functioning much like an “affiliation”, so that while Bik’iil is literally “a place”, in this context, it functions more to associate the carver to the “carving institution” located at that place, rather than that the artist actually “comes from” that place (in the sense of having been born there and growing up there).

o There are 19 hits in MHD for Bik’il, with one of them even Ix Aj Bik’il (PNG Shell Plaque 3 J2).

o If this is a correct reading, this establishes that Bik’iil indeed was a “place”.

·     See Jagodziński-RAWSM.p91-92.§5.2.2 for a lot more detailed information on Bik’iil, including confirmation that it was indeed a location.