CMGG entry for chum month-name      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Translation: first day of <month-name>
Part of speech: Noun

Spellings of chum month-name

                                

Skidmore-ULoENR.p24.fig1          

NAR Altar 1 D3                                

CHUM.<CHAK:AT:ta>                     

 

                                                                                                           

Greene                                        Greene                                         Safronov                                   Mathews                                     Coll-1

PAL TC F9                                    PAL TC G3                                    PNG Panel 3 V1                       TNA Monument 159 A2           YAX Lintel 26 O2

CHUM.<SAK:SIHOOM:ma>      CHUM: <[K’AN]JAL:wa>            CHUM.PAX                               CHUM:<MUWAAN:ni>             CHUM.<[K’AN]JAL:wa>

 

·      The first day of month <X> is “(the) seating (of) <X>”.

·      It is never written mi(h)-<month> – writing it as 0-<month> is purely a modern epigraphers convention (confirmed by Sergei Vepretskii).