·     No glyphs given in K&H.

·     Andrews-GZaYotMSS.p30.fig1a has a typo attributing this to YAX Lintel 26 when it is actually YAX Lintel 29.

·     Boulder with a smaller boulder in the bottom half, containing 5 non-touching dots (= a quincunx) – 1 larger in the centre and 4 smaller at the NW, NE, SW, SE corners (resembling the 5-dot (quincunx) variant of bi).

·     Variants (2):

o A. With two touching dots on top of the bi, with optional protector.

o B. With an oblong or L-shaped cross-hatched element on the quincunx.

·     Do not confuse this with the visually (and semantically?) related BIH = “road, way” or bi – both of the latter consist of only the boulder and quincunx, whereas BIX “to go by road, walk” has an additional element above the element which contains the quincunx.

·     It can occur as “Glyph-Z” – this appears to be a usage which seems to be independent of its meaning as the verb “go by road, walk, travel”.

o Yesugi&Saito-GYotMSS.p2.pdfp4.para2: Glyph Z is the so-called "bix glyph," which is often used in place of the k'in sign in Distance Numbers. [Sim: he-wa or HEEW/HE’EW occur in place of the K’IN sign (apparently as a numeral classifier for days), but I have never seen the BIX in this role in DNs.] It also appears in some passages associated with death. Glyph Y has been called the "beetle glyph" due to its somewhat peculiar appearance. From this pattern, we can consider Glyph-Z with a coefficient as a simple part of the numeral of Glyph-Y. Glyph Z and Glyph Y have a close relationship: When Glyph Z is present, Glyph Y appears without a coefficient, and when Glyph Z is absent, Glyph Y occurs with a coefficient. [Sim:

§ In this sense, it can be considered a sort of equivalent to HEEW: it is simply the numeral classifier for the coefficient of Glyph-Y, and can be present or absent.

§ The term Glyph Z exists “historically”, but in some ways is unfortunate, in that it’s unnecessary. In some contexts, SIM/Glyph-Y has a coefficient, and this coefficient can appear directly before it (=SIM/Glyph-Y) or there can be the numeral classifier BIX (=“Glyph-Z”) between the coefficient and the SIM/Glyph-Y. As such, there is no real need for the term/concept “Glyph-Z”. (This is rather similar to the situation with Glyph-D and Glyph-E as well. The SS gives the number of days since the new moon, which can be anything from 1 to 29. This appears as a coefficient in front of huliiy. If that number is below 20, then the coefficient appears directly before the huliiy, but if the number of days is greater or equal to 20, then the “20” glyph is written. The term/concept “Glyph-E” isn’t really needed. Of course, “Glyph-Z” and “Glyph-E” were useful and needed when the early stages of decipherment, as it gave epigraphers terms to think and write about the structural features of the SS, but in the light of current knowledge, these terms are probably more confusing than useful.

§ “Glyph-Z” and SIM/Glyph-Y can occur as part of the SS, but are very rare. They are connected to a 7-day cycle. See SIM for further information.]

o YAX Lintel 29 A5 is one such example of this usage. Andrews-GZaYotMSS.p30.fig1a has a typo which incorrectly gives this to YAX Lintel 26. There is a 7-day cycle expression in YAX Lintel 26, but it is at F1, and is only SIM/Glyph-Y, not Glyph-Z.

 

·     The AT-E1168-lecture16.t0:40:40 transcribes this as bixne’el, which means “he goes”.

·     The top two rows of the Cleveland Panel are missing, and some drawings do not show them at all. This can lead to the impression that Cleveland Panel A7 is A5. This is incorrect and (taking the two missing rows into account) the 5-bi-xi-ja is indeed at A7.

·     YAX Lintel 21 A5 and YAX Lintel 56 E1 are examples of the pure syllabogram-spelling used to write bixiiy in the context of Glyph-Z, not in the meaning of “go by road, walk, travel”, i.e. as a “numeral classifier” for the coefficient of Glyph-Y.