Abstract

LOPES, Luís; MACLEOD, Barbara  and  SHESENA, Alejandro. Of Heat, Holes, and Hollow Places: The Semantics and Phonetic Value of T650. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2023, vol.62, pp.75-114.  Epub Jan 30, 2024. ISSN 0185-2574.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm/62/000xs00146w03.

The reading of the T650 glyph has been a puzzle for decades. Here, we analyze the semantic contexts in which the glyph appears together with available phonetic evidence to arrive at a phonetic reading of JOM. We provide grammatical reconstructions of the lexical contexts and discuss the rebuses involved in non-semantic contexts.

Keywords : Classic Maya; epigraphy; T650; semantics; phonetic value.