K&L.p37.#4 TOK.p19.r5.c2 BMM9.p16.r1.c4
JATZ’ JATZ’ JATZ’
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MHD.MZ9.1&2&3 1630st
JATZ’ JATZ’

Zender-GFHaS.p5.pdfp5.fig6 (Zender) = HLHI (Kerr)
K2068 H1-I1
ja.JATZ’.ma jo.mi
· No glyphs given in K&H.
· Features: Canonically, a left hand holding a rock (K&L give one instance of a right hand).
· Zender-GFHaS.p5.pdfp5.para2 (2004)
o This is the paper which first proposed the reading JATZ’ for this logogram, based on the substitution of ja-tz’a as a pure syllabogram-only spelling (and also ja as an initial phonetic complement of the logogram).
o This proposal which is convincing and has now been completely accepted.
· K2068 H1 is unusual in that it writes jatz’noom but with an underspelled -n- instead of an underspelled -m-. Usually, there’s a no and ma written, or only no without ma, hardly ever ma without no.
· There’s little doubt that this glyph is JATZ’. But the relationship between this “hand holding a rock” / JATZ’ and the “hand holding an atlatl” (sometimes read JATZ’OOM) is complicated. See JATZ’OOM.

JM.p108.#3 Zender-GFHaS.p6.pdfp6.fig7b Zender-GFHaS.p6.pdfp6.fig7a
IXZ Panel 2 glyph-blocks #16-#17 SCU Stela 1 C3
<ja:tz’a>.yi ja.<tz’a:la> u.K’AHK’ <[ja]tz’a>.<K’IN(ICH):ni:AJAW:wa>
· Zender-GFHaS cites these two as examples of ja-tz’a è jatz’ – substitutions for the logogram which enable the decipherment of the logogram’s reading.
· MHD (2025-07-31) reads SCU Stela 1 C3 as tz’a-ja rather than ja-tz’a.