·    Distinguishing characteristic: HUL on the left with varying main sign on the right (but this HUL is shared with Glyph-G₃, also on the left):

o The HUL is an “old variant”.

o Outside: oval outline composed of many touching dots on 3 sides (top, left, and bottom)

o Inside has variation:

§ Typically based on two stacked non-touching circles, or

§ Two slightly curved horizontal bands, or

§ “AK’AB” – rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise.

·    Variants (4) of the main sign:

o A. Stylized face – this is given as one of the variants of TI’: the stylized face variant – features:

§ Top:

·      Left and right feeler, each with protector

·      Can (but doesn’t have to) be omitted when infixed in Glyph-F

§ Bottom: a vertically elongated boulder, divided into a top and bottom part by a slightly curved horizontal arc (pointing down); the top smaller than bottom:

·      Top: 2-3 dots

o    If 2: touching, can appear as a single small circle divided into two parts, with bold outline or bold divider (somewhat resembling a LEM).

o    If 3: in a triangular formation, triangle pointing up (two cases of 3 in a row, touching: K&H.p51.TabVIII.2, TMHW.pdfp432.r2.c1).

·      Bottom: resembles the lower part of HAAB (symmetric):

o    A dot in the centre.

o    Two arcs, in the top left and right.

This stylized face is a rare variant of TI’ (see TI’, specifically, examples TOK.p32.r5.c3 and BMM9.p21.r2.c3).

o B. “SIBIK”-like – this one is particularly easy to confuse with Glyph-G₄, but here the distinguishing characteristic is the “old variant” of HUL (which is not present in Glyph-G₄, which has a “7” instead).

o C. mo-NAL – features:

§ Top: NAL.

§ Bottom: “mo” – a circle of tiny touching dots with a dot in the centre.

§ Do not confuse this variant with the abstract variant of Glyph-G₃. The distinguishing characteristics are:

·      Glyph-G₂ (this glyph) has just a central dot (for the “mo”) whereas Glyph-G₃ (being related to JAN) has four radial spokes.

·      Glyph-G₂ (this glyph) has a NAL whereas Glyph-G₃ has nothing on top.

§ Do not confuse this variant with the NAL-variant of Glyph-G₉:

·      Glyph-G₂ (this glyph): (“old variant of HUL”) + NAL + mo.

·      Glyph-G₉: NAL + YIHK’IN + (optional) ITZAM (no HUL).

o D. Anthropomorphic head: This variant has only one example, given in TMHW.pdfp432.r2.c3.

·    The viewing of the “stylized face” of “A” and the “SIBIK-like” glyph of “B” as being two distinct variants of Glyph-G₂ is somewhat arbitrary. “B” could perhaps be considered a (rare?) sub-variant of “A”, as they share the three non-touching dots in the top half.

·    The HUL and the main sign may or may not become detached from one another when Glyph-G is infixed in Glyph-F:

o Detaches: no known examples (try to find some).

o Doesn’t detach: PAL Temple XVII P. B4, PAL PT M17.

·    Gronemeyer-GGF.p4-5.pdfp4-5 posits that the right top element in the variant with a stylized head (two feelers with protectors) is a variant of NAL, and the right bottom element is a variant of SIBIK, in its meaning of “soot” (and hence, by extension to refer to the “ash” of a milpa), but this seems to be an attempt to impose a pattern of a maize cycle onto the Glyph-G series, not obviously applicable for Glyph-G₂.

·    See the CMGG-entry for TI’, for more information on how it’s known that the “stylized face” on the right side of one of the variants of Glyph-G₂ (and also the mo-NAL-like glyph in TNA Monument 30 A2) are known to be read as TI’.