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

Translation: Number “10”
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of lajuun

                                                                                                                           

K&H.p48.pdfp50.#1.4 = 25EMC.pdfp41.#1.1               TOK.p22.r1.c1                        MHD.SC1a.1&2&3&4                                                      1579st

LAJUN                                LAJUN                                       “10” / CHAM                          LAJUUN                                                                             -

 

MC.p39.c1.r10.3

 

                                    

MHD.MB8.1&2                                        1744st                             B. Fash

                                                                                                             CPN Stela 3 B7

“10” / LAJUUN                                          -                                       4.10

 

·     No glyphs given in K&L, BMM9.

·     Features:

o A skull with nose-hole and bone-jaw, optionally with the “bone” property marker.

o MC gives a variant which has a human or god-head with bone-jaw, and with a bone infixed (or even covering, i.e. not entirely contained in) the top of the head.

o MHD reveals that there is a unique variant of “10” which consists of two hands:

§ It has been assigned the 3-character MHD code of MB8, and a search in MHD on “blcodes contains MB8” reveals that it occurs only on CPN Stela 3 B7.

§ MHD’s note on this glyph is: Represents a count of ten on the digits of two hands.

§ Iconographically, this makes a lot of sense, and it fits into the context of it being part of the coefficient of a Haab month, in turn part of the CR corresponding to one of the ISIG LC’s of this monument.

§ It corresponds to Bonn’s 1744st, but Bonn have not assigned it a reading.

·     In AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:39:45, the slide shows “1” is read juun and “10”, “13”, “14”, “15”, … “19” are read -lajuun, i.e. all with a long-u (in connection with the bar-and-dot notation).

·     Many prominent epigraphers have a long second syllable lajuun, including (but not restricted to) Prager, Stuart, and Tokovinine.