·     No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, SM.

·     Before decipherment, Grube-ALfS gave it the nickname “IVCB” (= “Inverted Vase (with) Crossed-Bands”). I don’t know if this was a one-off, for the sake of the article, or whether the usage was more widespread. However, it’s not really relevant today, as the glyph has been deciphered. Nicknames are only needed for glyphs which have not been (or have only been partically) deciphered.

·     Variants (3):

o A. Stylized:

§ Abstract:

·       An “inverted olla” with infixed AT₁, with optional deer antler preceding.

·       TOK.p16.r2.c4, BMM9.p13.r4.c4, BPK Stela 2 E1 show that the deer antler can be omitted if the “inverted-olla” (with lip and with infixed AT₁) is present.

·       BPK Stela 2 E1 has the head of a deer immediately to the right of the inverted olla (a long droopy ear is one of the characteristics of a deer head). In a way, this makes the antler unnecessary. The word which comes after that might be pa’-chan, but even if it is, it’s not necessarily in connection with the EG for YAX.

·       BMM9.p21.r2.c1 has the deer antler, has an infixed AT₁, but lacks the “inverted-olla” – the deer antler is apparently sufficient to trigger the reading as SIP.

·       The “lip” of the “inverted olla” (at the bottom, because it is inverted) can have a reinforcement. As with other instances of “inverted olla”:

o    The “lip” can become a single bar, separate from the main body of the vase.

o    There can optionally be three touching or non-touching dots below the “lip” – these perhaps represent droplets of water coming out of the “inverted olla”.

o B. Head variant:

§ A deity head with a deer antler as forehead ornament. MHD.PAC.3 is an example with an unusual forehead ornament – it is more “curved”, and resembles leaves or flames more than it does a deer antler.

§ YAX Lintel 1 C2 shows that the abstract variant (= “inverted-olla” with infixed AT₁) can be optionally infixed in the deity head, to further reinforce the reading of SIP.

§ The head variant is also given in TOK.p25.r4.c1, BMM9.p14.r7.c3, and MHD.PAC.2.

o C. mo-like variant:

§ An element resembling mo, with a deer antler above.

§ Grube-ALfS.p139.pdfp2.c2.para-1: Another sign substitutes for the head of the Sip God or the IVCB sign in an 819-day count on a black background incised vase from Palenque (Fig. l0) [known as the Murcielagos Vase or Pedestal bowl / 'Wak Kimi Vase / Initial Series Vase]. Here, the position between the direction, the colour and the mysterious T739 [=SIM] compound is taken by a glyph which consists of a deer-antler superfix attached to a sign superficially resembling the syllable mo. This rare sign has no counterpart in monumental inscriptions. However, a very similar sign (Sign 52 in Zimmermann 1956;159 in Thompson 1962 and APJ in Macri and Looper 2009: 59) appears in the Dresden and Madrid Codices (Fig. 11).

·     Grube-ALfS (2012) is the paper where a reading is first proposed. This seems to have found wide acceptance (see the syllabogram-only spelling below).

·     Pronunciation: TOK gives SIIP, MHD gives SI’P, Grube-ALfS gives SIP. The other sources give SIP, but this doesn’t mean the vowel is short, as all the other sources never indicate non-short vowels anyway. This means that there is a possibility that the vowel is not short.

·     Do not confuse this with the visually similar “female title associated with IX K’UH”, which is “INVERTED-OLLA” with infixed K’IN (and for which the pronunciation is unknown).

·     Sip means neither “deer” nor “deer antler” – it’s the name of the Deer God (iconographically represented by a deer antler). Valencia-KyeCMd819D.p129.para3.l-4: The presence of Sip in the name of the 819-day cycle is not the only evidence of this relationship between K'awiil and the Lord of the Animals, since we have ceramic examples where the latter appears through K'awiil's leg. This is the reason that some of the examples show a head which isn’t a deer but rather an anthropomorphic head.

·     Occurs very often as one of the aliases of Yaxuun Bahlam IV: Te’ Kuy Sip.

·     KuppratApp.2 and MHD.PAC.2 = YAX Lintel 21 D6b: The apparent horizontal bar / “5” and the three dots are just part of the inverted vase – the “5” is part of the lip and the three dots are just droplets coming out of the vase. Both are not meant to be read separately.

·     Grube-ALfS is the paper which uses this syllabogram-only spelling to propose a reading for the logogram. It’s the equivalence between the syllabogram spelling si-pu of Dresden Codex 13c and the logogram of Grube-ALfS.p138.pdfp1.c2.fig2c / Codex Style Vase and Grube-ALfS.p140.pdfp3.c1.fig13 / K1152 (and several others in the Madrid Codex) – with the “7” in common – which enables the reading of the logogram as SIP/SIIP/SI’P. The equivalence of the two is established in the paper via a very much larger number of steps and pieces of evidence, including iconography in monuments, occurrences of different variants in the Madrid Codex and in the 819-day cycle expressions of the PAL Murcielagos Vase, etc – all sharing enough elements in common (the deer antler, “7”, inverted olla, etc) to justify the conclusion.