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

Translation: vulture
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of usiij

                                                                                  

K&L.p17.#3                                                           BMM9.p19.r6.c3 = TOK.p26.r1.c1              MHD.BV2

USIJ                                                                        USIJ                            USIIJ                               USIIJ

 

                                                                          

Law&Stuart-CM.p131.fig6.2a         Law&Stuart-CM.p131.fig6.2b           Gronemeyer-LoTiMHW.p89.fig1f

                                                                                                                             BPK ScS.5 F6

USIIJ                                                     u:<USIIJ.ja>:si                                       u.USIIJ[WITZ]

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H.

·     In “BPK ScS.5”, the “ScS” stands for “Sculptured Stone”. There are five such known sculptured stones, in MHD designated as objabbr = BPKSS01, BPKSS02, BPKSS03, BPKSS04, BPKSS05.

·     Stuart-VHtPNoB is the paper which first proposes the readings usiij / us. [get more examples from the paper]

·     The blcode in MHD for USIIJ is MHD.BV2. A search in MHD on “blcodes CONTAINS BV2” gives 10 hits, 9 of which are in connection with the toponym Usiij Witz. The remaining hit is in connection with a deity name. I.e. as is so often the case with words for animals, they are all in connection with names with a “vulture” component, not in connection with describing an actual real-life vulture.

 

Syllabogram spellings of usiij

                                                         

Law&Stuart-CM.p131.pdfp4.fig6.2c /Coll-1              Graham

YAX HS3 Step 1 C2                                                          YAX Lintel 46 F4

u.<si:ja>                                                                            si:<u:ja>

 

·     The YAX HS3 Step 1 & YAX Lintel 46 examples are both in the context of the name Aj K’an Usiij “He of (the) Yellow Vulture”, the name of a captive of Kokaaj Bahlam III.

·     K&H even suggests that K’an Usiij may refer to a specific kind of vulture – K&H.p119.pdfp121.#1: [usiij =] “vulture” type unspecified, though prefixed by the colour k’an “yellow” as “yellow vulture” may relate to King Vultures (Sarcoramphus papa).