·     AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:37:03 is where Tokovinine explains that HAAB is a drum.

·     The “traditional” explanation (among epigraphers) was that drums were used to celebrate the change of the year, and hence by extension came to indicate a year, but Dorota Bojkowska says this is now no longer considered correct, and that the iconographic origin of HAAB is not even actually a drum.

·     Variants (4):

o A. Abstract:

§ A boulder outline with a horizontal line dividing it into two parts:

·       Top:

o    A bold inverted-U, forming a second “ceiling”.

o    Two non-touching vertical bars from the second ceiling to the floor, optionally cross-hatched.

·       Bottom:

o    a circle in the centre.

o    two arcs – one on the left and one on the right, attached to the ceiling.

These three elements form a sort of “face”.

·       Optionally, below the bottom: two or three non-touching circles (medium sized) – left and right and (optionally middle). These are pure ornamentation and are not meant to be pronounced.

o B. Bird-head (most of K&L.p63.#2):

§ AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:34:55-36:55 discusses the head variants of PIK, WINIKHAAB, and HAAB. For HAAB, Tokovinine explains that:

·       It’s a bird, but in this case, a skeletal bird as there is:

o    A skeletal jaw (“bone-jaw”).

o    A skull-like opening instead of nostrils (although beaks don’t technically have a nose).

·       The eye has a HIX infixed. This is either a “full” HIX [Sim: or just three non-touching dots in a triangular formation, triangle pointing downwards].

·       There are jaguar spots in the upper part of the head.

§ Summary of distinguishing characteristics: a bird-head (usually with two syllabogram o feathers, one on each side of the head) with a bone-jaw and nose-hole, HIX-eye, jaguar spots in the upper part of the head.

o C. Waterlily Serpent:

§ Bottom – the Waterlily Serpent.

§ Top – quite a large variation:

·       The abstract form of HAAB (B0548pp/B0548hp, PNG Stela 3 E1b, DO Unprovenanced Panel 2 (PAL), QRG Stela E C4), or

·       A waterlily element (K&L.p63.#2.13&15), or

·       Both abstract form of HAAB and a waterlily (K&L.p63.#2.11), or

·       Other (K&L.p63.#2.12&14).

Chinchilla-ItCotMG.p438.pdfp15.para1.l+6: Stuart suggests a reading for its hieroglyphic name as Juun Witz’ Nah Kan. In the hieroglyphic script, the Water-Lily Serpent served as the head variant of the number thirteen, and it also substituted for the HAAB’ logogram. Several studies interpret it as symbolizing standing bodies of water. This may explain its association with the Maize God, who frequently appears in aquatic settings in ancient Maya art.

o D. Full figure:

§ So far, only PAL PT and YAX Lintel 48.