K&H.p86.#4 K&L.p39.#4 TOK.p28.r1.c4 BMM9.p17.r7.c3
SIH? / SIY SIH SIH SIJ
25EMC.pdfp46.#2.2 [25EMC.pdfp46.#2.1 = K&L.p39.#4.4]
SIH? / SIY?
MHD (Montgomery) MHD (Graham)
PNG Panel 1 UCN Stela 4 D1a-D2
<SIH:ya>.ja K’IN.<CHAAK:ki> SIH:ya{j} <K’IN:ni>.<CHAAK:ki>
JM.p217.#5 JM.p217.#4 = K&L.p39.#4.4
SI-ji-ya SI
K&L.p39.#6 = 25EMC.pdfp46.#2.3 TOK.p15.r2.c1
SIH SIH? / SIY? SIH
K&L.p39.#5 MHD.2S4.1&2
(probably from MQL Stela 11 B6a)
SIH SIH
MHD (Graham) MHD (Graham) MHD (Graham) MHD (Graham)
MQL Stela 3 B1 MQL Stela 3 F4 MQL Stela 4 B3 MQL Stela 11 B6a
<SIH{yaj}+K’IN:ni>.<CHAAK.ki> <SIH{yaj}+K’IN:ni>.<CHAAK.ki> <SIH{yaj}+K’IN:ni>.<CHAAK.ki> <SIH{yaj}+K’IN>.<CHAAK.ki>
· No glyphs given in BMM9.
· Pronunciation:
o The reading SI given by JM has been superseded.
o There is lack of agreement between SIH, SIJ, or SIY in other sources but the vast majority opt for SIH.
o 25EMC is not even sure between SIH? and SIY?.
o I’m going for SIH: partly because that is the majority opinion, but partly also to have an end consonant maximally distinct from the -j of the inflectional -yaj.
· Variants (3):
o A. An iguana head (facing left, like most animal and human head glyphs) rotated clockwise by 90 degrees, with an arc of touching blood drops all along the top (what used to be the face before rotation).
§ The blood drops distinguish it from hu, which doesn’t have them.
§ In the early days of decipherment, before this glyph could be read, it had the nickname: the “upended frog” glyph.
o B. Head or head and arms and torso emerging from a split.
o C. “PAX-like” element – an element which resembles the top element in PAX (two leaf-like elements joined at the base):
§ This is found in primarily in MQL, e.g. Stela 3, 4, and 11 (the last is probably the example used for K&L.p39.#5).
There are two other inscriptions (not from MQL) where the name Sihyaj K’in Chaak occurs (also given as examples above):
§ PNG Panel 1 C1-C2 has: <SIH:ya>.ja K’IN.<CHAAK:ki>
§ UCN Stela 4 D1b-D2 has: <SIH:ya{j}> <K’IN:na>.<CHAAK:ki>
In both cases, the SIH is written with variant “A” (the upended frog glyph) – the name can hence be confidently read as Sihyaj K’in Chaak. Because of the context, we can consider the PAX-like element of MQL Stela 11 B6a to be a substitution for the upended frog glyph. For this reason, we can also read with confidence the PAX-like element as SIH. That “B” and “C” are visually related to one another (perhaps “C” is a simplified form of “B”) also helps to support reading “C” as SIH.
§ Do not confuse this logogram with some variants of the PA’.