CMGG entry for chum      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Translation: sit
Part of speech: Verb

Logogram spellings of chum

                                                                                                                        

K&H.p17.#1.1  ~ K&H.p81.#5                                                TOK.p21.r4.c4                BMM9.p16.r6.c1           JM.p67.#3               JM.p67.#2

CHUM[mu]          CHUM                                                          CHUM                             CHUM[mu]                     CHUM[mu]              <CHUM[*mu]:la>.<[ji[ya]>

 

                                                                                      

K&L.p35.#6                                                                                                                          JM.p67.#4                                        JM.p68.#2                                    

CHUM  / CHUM[mu]                                                                                                          <CHUM[mu].la>.<[ji]ya>                <CHUM[mu]:wa>.<[ni]ya>            

 

 

Coll-2

TRT Monument 6 H10 (‘D10’)

<<<CHUM[mu]>:wa>.ni>:ya

 

·     The iconographic origin of this logogram is the torso of a person sitting (without the head being portrayed). The bottom left is the thigh and knee of the person sitting cross-legged on the ground (e.g. common people or vassal nobles) or on a raised platform (e.g. the ruler).

·     Glyph-block H10 of TRT Monument 6 is sometimes labelled as D10. This is because there was once an older (incorrect) system of glyph-block labelling, where the missing columns A-D were not labelled at all (they being completely missing), and the “real” column E (and onwards) was labelled as A (and onwards), resulting in column letters being 4 lower than they should be. Hence the incorrect labelling, under the older system of D10 instead of H10. The correct labelling (with the missing columns A-D) is deduced from the symmetrical T-shape of the total glyphic text of the inscription, where the left side of the T-shape (column A-D) is completely missing).