·    The KAWAK-like component looks halfway between TUUN and WITZ. Perhaps the extra curvature resulting from the indentation in the top left (where the HIX nestles) is sufficient to indicate WITZ. Alternatively, other examples are more “curly” on the inside of the walls and ceiling hence allowing the triggering of the reading WITZ (the M&G example has a slight curl in the top right corner).

·    Do not confuse Baax Witz with Hix Witz:

o Hix Witz (ZPB = Zapote Bobal):

§ Was a polity immediately to the north of YAX.

§ The 4^th wife of Yaxuun Bahlam IV, Ix Mut Ajaw, had the additional name/title Ix Hix Witz Ajaw.

§ Nelson-PhD.p26-34.pdfp42-50 shows where Hix Witz is located – a little distance away from the banks of the Usumacinta River.

o Baax Witz (XUL = Xultun):

§ Was in the far north-east corner of the department of Petén in modern-day Guatemala.

§ Ix Baax Witz Ajaw is named as the wife of Tayel Chan K’inich – the ruler of Ik’a (MTL) – in a scene on K4996 where they both receive tribute from three Lakams.

§ Ik’a is also in the department of Petén in modern-day Guatemala, so it makes sense that the Ik’a ruler had a wife from Xultun.

·    Physical location:

o CMHI, in commenting about this YAX Lintel 17, says this is El Parajal. (Ian Graham calls it only Pajaral, no “El”).

o Tuszyńska-PhD.p79&p170 [2016]: Gloria has definitively worked out that the Hix Witz associated with Ix Mut Bahlam is Zapote Bobal. This could be in connection with other people or events associated with the name, while Gloria’s study concentrated on which toponym corresponded to Hix Witz in the context of Ix Mut Bahlam.

o Martin-AMP.p397.pdfp421 [2020] (EG Appendix) gives 3 sites: Zapote Bobal, Pajaral, La Joyanca (for Pajaral, Martin also uses the form without “El”).

o Martin&ReentsBudet-AHB.p2.pdfp2.col2.para-1: The next glyph, pA1b, identifies this character as a human ruler by means of the emblem glyph HIIX- WITZ-AJAW-wa “Jaguar Hill Lord.” This refers to a polity that has been recognized by epigraphers for some time, but only recently has evidence emerged linking it to the ruins of La Joyanca, Zapote Bobal, and Pajaral (Stuart 2003; see also Arnauld 2002:49-51; Breuil- Martínez et al. 2005:304-307; Gámez, Fitzsimmons, and Forné 2007; Stuart 2008). Lying in the western portion of the department of Petén, Guatemala, this area is bounded by the sites of El Peru to the north and Itsimte-Sacluk to the east (Figure 3). The distribution of Hiix Witz names and titles at three sites is unusual but not unprecedented, perhaps reflecting a system of multi- capital governance or a sequence of shifting seats of rulership. Pajaral has at least one early monument and it has been persuasively suggested that its imposing hilltop acropolis is the original “Jaguar Hill” (Stuart 2008). Zapote Bobal is the largest of the three, with the greatest number of monuments, and may well have been the dominant center in the Late Classic period (Breuil-Martínez et al. 2005; Gámez, Fitzsimmons, and Forné 2007).