Variant: skull

·    Features:

o Left: Optional, a vertically long, rectangular element:

§ Top: washer or dot.

§ Bottom: two parallel vertical bars.

o Right:

§ Skull(?), with (optionally) in the bottom right, a washer with two touching dots on the outside of perimeter of the washer, approximately in the middle of the left side (at about 8 o’clock or 9 o’clock).

·    Readings:

o MHD gives only a reading as logogram KISIN/KIISIN (but without a question mark).

o Bonn gives a reading as syllabogram p’e, with an alternative reading as logogram KISIN?, and even then, tentatively, with a question mark.

·    The initial consonant p’- seems to have been very rare.

o MHD doesn’t list this as a syllabogram at all. And even in its logogram reading, it only occurs in the Codices.

o Bonn lists only p’e, no p’a, p’i, p’o, p’u.

Combining the two points above suggests that the sound p’- didn’t exist at all in Classic Maya, and even in the Post-Classic only existed as p’e – i.e., before an e, not before any of the other vowels of Maya – if it existed at all.

·    MHD statistics (2026-01-27) – a search in the “All - Blocks” option of MHD on:

o “blcodes contains PE4”: 56 hits (all Codical).

o These are distributed as:

§ … and “objabbr contains MAD”: 40 hits.

§ … and “objabbr contains DRE”: 14 hits.

§ … and “objabbr contains PAR”: 2 hits.

·    For the reasons given above, the whole row of p’a, p’e, p’i, p’o, p’u is not given in the syllabogram tables of the usual pedagogical works.