·    Features:

o Large “nose”.

o Mouth tendril.

§ JM.p48.#4 was read as CHAAK but later insights show that this is actually God-GI of the Palenque Triad.

§ This later reading is made on the basis of there being a “fish fin” to the right of the mouth, instead of the mouth tendril (this being what distinguishes God-GI from Chaak, God-GI being a “form” of Chaak).

o Back of head (i.e., whole right side) has an “ear” along the whole length – a component which somewhat resembles an infixed yu:

§ The bottom part can optionally have 3 tiny non-touching dots in a triangular formation pointing up (an upside-down face) or the reduced variant of la; Dorota Bojkowska: it’s rather common to find this element at the bottom of the ear in gods, not just Chaak.

§ The middle element can have the middle of the left side protruding inwards, with 2-5 tiny non-touching dots inside (typically 3), somewhat resembling a spondylus shell:

·        Dorota Bojkowska: the common understanding among epigraphers is that the ear of CHAAK is a spondylus shell.

·        But the element in Chaak protrudes inwards on the left side (resulting in a “kidney”-shaped element) while the spondylus shell protrudes outwards.

o Optional: phonetic complement ki – where the three god heads Chaak, K’awiil, Yopaat can sometimes be difficult to tell apart, the (occasional) phonetic complements of (respectively) ki, la, ti can be helpful.

o The MHD Concordance matches SR7a to T1030q but neither the spondylus-shell ear nor the “left feeler” (scroll) eye are present in T1030q.

§ This makes T1030q into quite an unusual variant of CHAAK.

§ T1030q does however share many features with MHD.SR7a.3. Indeed the MHD Catalog gives both as being codical forms, which explains why they look so different from the Classic forms MHD.SR7a.1&2 and the other examples given here.

 

·    MC says that  MC.p111.#2 is a codex form.