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.