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

Translation: Pomoy
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of pomoy: None known.

Syllabogram spellings of pomoy

A drawing of a group of stones Description automatically generated with medium confidence                                                                                                                            A drawing of a symbol Description automatically generated

Martin-AMP.p398.pdfp442.r4.c1               Mathews =  Bíró-TCMWR.p239.pdfp255.fig233c             Bíró-TCMWR.p239.pdfp255.fig233b

                                                                          TNA Monument 159 G5                                                       

K’UH{ul}.<<[po]mo>:AJAW>.yo                   AJ.<<[po]mo>:yo>                                                                   K’UH{ul}.<<[po]mo>:AJAW>.yo

 

                                                      A black and white image of a symbol Description automatically generated

Bíró-TCMWR.p239.pdfp255.fig233c                Bíró-TCMWR.p240.pdfp256.col1.fig234

                                                                                Looted Stela

AJ.<<[<po?/pa?>]mo>.yo>                                 IX.<<<[po]mo>.yo>:AJAW>

 

·    Known from a captive from Pomoy, recorded on TNA Monument 159.

·    TNA Monument 159: There is a Mathews drawing in Coll-1 with filename Monument 175, labelled as Monument 175 on the drawing itself. This matches a photograph from the Peabody site listed under Monument 159. MHD also refers to it as Monument 159.

·    It’s not known where this site is. It’s not been given a 3-character site code – it can’t be found on the Bonn site, nor on the other lists of site codes on the internet.

·    Martin-AMP.p398.pdfp442.r4.c1 is probably the same as Bíró-TCMWR.p239.pdfp255.fig33b.

·    Bíró-TCMWR.p238.pdfp254.col1.para2.l-6: Pomoy is still an unidentified minor site whose only known ruler is B’alun K’awil whose yajaw k’ahk’ uchan aj chij was captured by Ruler 8 in 789 and was represented/mentioned on four separate monuments (see Monuments 20, 108, 152, and 159; Figure 233; Martin n.d.a; Zender 2004c:275-279).

·    Bíró-TCMWR.p238.pdfp254.col1.para3: Pomoy had probably a friendly or subordinate relationship with Palenque as another looted monument from the site (probably coming from a period of 700-750; Figure 234) representing Ix Ok Ahin ix pomoy ajaw …