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

Translation: weaver
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of jalam

                                                                                      

BMM9.p10.c1.r4                25EMC.pdfp37.#3                        Grube-TLJ.p1.fig1 =  T284                 M&L.p286.2M2

JALAM                                  JALAM                                            JALAM                                                   JALAM

 

                                                                     

Grube-TLJ.p2.fig3a                       Grube-TLJ.p2.fig3b                                             Grube-TLJ.p2.fig3c                                                      Grube-TLJ.p2.fig3d

CRN Element 53                            CRN panel 3                                                         CRN panel 2                                                                 CRN HS 3, Block 2

IX.<6:JALAM:CHAN:na>               IX 6.<JALAM:CHAN>                                           IX 6.<JALAM:CHAN> AJAW                                        IX.<6:JALAM:CHAN>

 

                                              

NAR Stela 24, front                                                                            NAR Stela 24, right side                              NAR Stela 29, back                                      

M&G.p74.1 = M&G.p74.box1 = Grube-TLJ.p2.fig2a                    Grube-TLJ.p2.fig2b                                      Grube-TLJ.p2.fig2c

IX.6 <JALAM:CHAN>.<LEM?>                                                           IX.6 <JALAM:CHAN>.<LEM?>

 

·       No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, TOK.

·       Resembles the top part of AJAW, but is distinct from it.

·       Although different, there isn’t a discrepancy in logogram between BMM9.p10.c1.r4 and Grube-TLJ.p1.fig1:

o The first element is the same, but the second element is (respectively) po or BEN.

o This is because JALAM is just the cross-hatched eyeball on top of reduced AJAW. AJAW can be BEN.po or po.BEN – in BMM9, the BEN is covered by the new element, whereas in Grube-TLJ the po is covered.

·       Caution: M&L have two different glyphs as 2M2 – this one (T284) and T170.

·       List of prominent persons named Ix Wak Jalam Chan:

o Lady Six Sky of NAR, daughter of Bajlaj Chan K’awiil of DPL, and mother of K’ahk’ Tiliw Chan Chaak of NAR.

o Ix Wak Jalam Chan of Motul de San José, second wife of Kokaaj Bahlam IV.

o Ix Chak Tok Chaak of CRN, wife of Chakaw Nahb Chan and mother of his two sons, K’inich Yook and Chak Ak’ Paat Kuy.

·       Meaning:

o BBM9.p10.r4.c1 JALAM (no meaning given).

o As per Grube-TLJ.p4-5 = ‘weaver’ (Grube-TLJ.p4.l-7).

o Dorota Bojkowska says quite commonly accepted as weaver.

o 25EMC.pdfp37.#3 explicitly gives “weaver”.

 

Syllabogram spellings of jalam

                                                                               

K1383  (RAZ)                                 OXP stela 5                                       YAX Lintel 41 D1-D2                         =   YAX lintel 41                                   

Zender-TCMPG.p11.fig8e          Grube-TLJ.p4.fig5                                                                                               Grube-TLJ.p3.fig4b                        

IX.<ja:la:ma>                                IX:WAK ja:la:mi CHAN:na               IX.6 <ja[la]:ma>.<CHAN:AJAW>