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

Alternative readings: NUUN / NU'UN
Translation: logogram of unknown meaning NU’...
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of nu...

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K&L.p30.#9                             BMM9.p14.r3.c4              KuppratApp.1                  ~= ER-pc2022-06-05d                 ?.fig5 (ER-pc2022-06-05) Stuart

= 25EMC.pdfp43.#9                                                                                                                                                             = Martin-AMP.p397.pdfp421.r2..c3

= SM.pdfp10.#11

= KuppratApp.2

                                                                                              RAZ 1997-Plate #20        RAZ Mask text B8                        RAZ Tomb 19 Vessel 15 K

                                                                                              Coe & Kerr

NUN?                                        NU…                                  NUN? / NUM?                   ?                                                     ?

 

                                                                                              

mayavase.com = ER-pc2022-06-05c                  ER-pc2022-06-05a                     ER-pc2022-06-05b               ?.fig5 (ER-pc2022-06-05)

K1383 H3                                                                RAZ Stela 2 E3                             RAZ Stela 2 E7                       RAZ Stela 2 C7 

nu.NU…

 

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K1446                                        K1446                                             K1446                                       Earspool Text

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H. There is a listing for NUUN in TOK.p9.r3.c2, but this is for a totally different glyph, considered by some other sources to be a variant of nu. Confusingly, this is precisely the knot-like glyph (or rather, the left half of it) appearing draped over the top and sides of the RAZ-EG head-glyph.

·     Martin-AMP.p397.pdfp421.r2..c3: EG of RAZ.

·     Nun / Nuun / Nu’un is also known in the name of:

o The DPL ruler Nu’un Jol Chaak, but there the Nu’un spelled with syllabograms: nu{un}, nu-u{n}, etc. This could be considered the “knot” variant of the syllabogram.

o The TIK ruler Yax Nuun Ahiin, but there the Nu’un spelled with a glyph which could either be considered the “knot” variant of the syllabogram, or a NUUN in its own right. Indeed, it is this “knot” glyph which TOK.p9.r3.c2 treats as NUUN.

o All of the DPL and TIK instances of these rulers’ names resembles what MC.p159.r5.c1.6 and H&S.p33.r1.c5.4 give as nu (but which is no longer considered as such in more recent syllabogram tables).

·     There is a lot of uncertainty regarding the meaning and reading of this logogram. K&L. 25EMC, SM, KuppratApp venture the furthest and gives a proposed reading of NUN? (pronounced nu’n). K&L and 25EMC assign this NUN a tentative meaning of ‘intermediary, ritual speaker’? or refers to someone who “speaks brokenly”. But other sources do not seem to consider this to be the meaning of the logogram in question.

·     It’s unclear to me if this is the same glyph as “RAZ-EG”.

·     Features:

o Human head, generally of a middle-aged to older man.

o With a “mo” in the mouth.

o (Optionally) an L-shaped ear with the shape of the ear of a rabbit but without the water marking inside.