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

Translation: palm
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of xan

TOK.p16.r3.c4

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Prager&Wagner-aPLX.p1.fig1

a

Abstract drawing (“textbook example”)

b

Abstract drawing (“textbook example”)

c

TRS Stela 1

d

CPN Stela 49

e

PAL Temple XIX, Platform, West Side

f

CML Urn 26

g

COL “Walter Randall Stela” [Sim: a.k.a. “Randel Stela]

h

Dresden Codex 25c

XAN?

 

Prager&Wagner-aPLX.p4.fig7

a

Dresden Codex 25c

b

Tayasal (Vase “T7B/6-22”

c

CRC Ballcourt Marker 2

d

PAL Temple 19, Alfarda Panel

CHAK XAN?

 

               

Polyukhovych                                                 Prager&Wagner-aPLX.p11.fig12

CNC Panel 1 F8-E9                                         K4996 Speech Text glyph-block #14

AJ.<XAN?:na> MO’                                        ka.<XAN?:la> te.<e:le>

 

·     Features:

o Basic boulder shape.

o Top: tri-partite, with each part having multiple vertical ticks – representing the crest/top of a palm tree.

o Bottom: multiple crossed bands or just two (=”AT”).

·     Pronunciation and meaning proposed in Prager&Wagner-aPLX, not definitive:

o ka-XAN?-la te-e-le for ka-xanal te’el. We speculate that ka-xanal? te’el “our palmy sticks” may relate to palms, palm leaves, or object made of palm, potentially mentioned as tribute or tax items.