·    Features – three components always present:

o 1. A K’AN-like “main sign” (MHD.XQ2/“PCHK”):

§ There can be cross-hatching in 0 or 2 (occasionally even all 4) quadrants. Note, however, that PUS Stela O A6 is shown with all four quadrants cross-hatched in the drawing by Grube, but only two in the drawing by Montgomery.

§ In the case of 0 quadrants of cross-hatching, this could be due to erosion, where the cross-hatching is no longer visible.

§ In the case of 2 quadrants of cross-hatching, they are in “diagonally opposite corners”, i.e., either the NW and SE quadrants or the NE and SW quadrants.

§ This undeciphered glyph has been given the nickname “Partially Cross-hatched K’AN” / “PCHK”. For more information see “PCHK”.

o 2. An AJAW-like element on the top – can be:

§ Reduced variant of AJAW (= “BEN-ICH” = BEN + po / po + BEN), or

§ “Double BENs” – note that the BEN can have unusual variants as well – I designate this as “AJAW” in quotes, to show that it’s AJAW-like, but not AJAW.

·     It’s hard to know how much of this is just apparent variation due to erosion, old drawings from a time of less knowledge, etc.

·     There is probably a good chance that these definitely are not AJAW, based on PAL Temple 16 Stucco Ep2 and PNG Panel 2 E2, where two different (modern-day) artists / epigraphers (Grube, Stuart, Van Stone) have deliberately drawn them as distinctly different from the (reduced variant of) AJAW. The doubled element is, for:

o    PAL Temple 16 Stucco Ep2: a circular element divided in half by a horizontal line, with (two) parallel almost vertical ticks from the ceiling, and a dot hanging from the middle of the dividing horizontal line.

o    PNG Panel 2 E2: a circular element divided in half by a horizontal line, with a vertical “ladder” in the middle of the bottom half.

o 3. Variable last element:

§ ji (hand variant).

§ yi (standard or hand variant).

·    There are 13 instances of this variant of Glyph-X in MHD (2024-12-21):

o A search on “blcodes contains XQ2” gives 13 hits.

o A search on “blsem contains Glyph X01d” gives the same 13 hits.

I.e., the only known occurrences of MHD.XQ2/“PCHK” are in this particular variant of Glyph-X and all instances of this variant of Glyph-X have MHD.XQ2/“PCHK”. Of these 13 instances, there were:

§ ji (hand variant): 4 instances.

§ yi (standard or hand variant): 3 instances.

§ Other/indeterminate/none: 6 instances:

These statistics are based on my own visual examination and differs slightly from MHD’s transliteration of these 13 glyph-blocks.