K&L.p29.#3 = KuppratApp TOK.p17.r4.c3 BMM9.p13.r4.c1 KuppratApp
MUKNAL MUK MUK MUK / MUKNAL
TOK.p17.r4.c4
MUK
· No glyphs given in K&H.
· Features:
o Boulder in the shape of a series of steps, climbing from left to right.
o Inside, darkness (=cross-hatching) – common but optional.
o Skull in bottom right corner.
· Note that while most examples have steps ascending from left to right (i.e. asymmetric), TOK.p17.r4.c4 has a symmetric variant where the “wood” element divides the interior into two sections, and only the right section is cross-hatched.
· Do not confuse this with the visually similar CH’EEN. Although some variants of MUK are divided by a vertical line or band, with darkness in the right half, MUK has a “step” outline on the left and top, while CH’EEN has a boulder outline. Also, MUK has an infixed skull, whereas CH’EEN has one of the three elements bone-jaw, eyeball or K’IN.
· It is unclear to me why the -nal is read by some sources, even when there isn’t a NAL present. Wouldn’t it be more sensible to have muk = “to bury” (one logogram MUK) and muknal = “grave” (two logograms MUK-NAL)?
JM.p173.#2 JM.p173.#3 JM.p173.#4 JM.p173.#5 MC.p22.#3 = MC.p62.#5
mu:ka{j} <mu:ka>.ja mu.<ka:ja> <mu:ka>.ja <mu:ka>.ja