·     Proposed decipherment in Stuart-GfRaL (2002).

·     The only references are Stuart-GfRaL (2002) and AT-YT2021-lecture13 – not in JM (2002), EB (2009), TOK (2017), K&L (2018), BMM9 (2019), 25EMC (2020), K&H (2020). Except for JM (which may predate or be contemporaneous with the Stuart paper), it is strange that this hasn’t been taken up in any of the other works, for a period of almost 20 years since the proposal.

·     Found only in combination with K’AB, almost? exclusively in connection with the title of two major positions in a Maya ruler’s court: Noh K’ab and Tz’eh K’ab – the Right Hand and Left Hand (of the Ruler). See also Tz’eh K’ab.

·     The reference to MT 9 is not “Monument 9” but “Miscellaneous Text 9”. I have access to a single drawing showing MT 9, MT 11, and MT 140. These three passages of text have been given some additional references on the drawing:

 

MT 9	12K-244/22, Bu. 48
MT 11	12J-191/17, P.D. 22
MT 140	98B-44/13, Ca. <something missing>

 

Theses references are apparently, in turn, reference numbers from an archaeological dig, as the first of them appears in full in Tikal Report 27 Part A Appendix 14, along with other reference numbers of very similar format to the other two.

 

·     AT-YT2021-lecture13.t0:27:11-27:24: If you're a "Left Hand", you're presumably in [charge of] the household of the king, if you're a "Right Hand", you're in charge of the external relations. And sometimes people are called "Left Hand, Right Hand", assuming, I guess, a kind of double role.

·     Note the ba infixed into the K’AB as end phonetic complement in one of the drawings of TIK Marcador D3 (artist uncertain).