[This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.]
CMGG entry for "RAZ-EG"

Alternative readings: NU... / NUUN / NU'UN
Translation: Rio Azul (EG)
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of "RAZ-EG"

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K&L.p30.#9 = 25EMC.pdfp43.#9 = SM.pdfp10.#11 = KuppratApp.2               BMM9.p14.r3.c4              KuppratApp.1                     ~= ER-pc2022-06-05d               

                                                                                                                                                                                  RAZ 1997-Plate #20          RAZ Mask text B8                       

                                                                                                                                                                                  Coe & Kerr

NUN?                                                                                                                           NU…                                    NUN? / NUM?                   ?     

 

                                                                                                

Martin-AMP.p397.pdfp421.r2..c3 = SM.pdfp10.#11 = ?.fig5 (ER-pc2022-06-05) Stuart =

 “RAZ-EG”                                                                              RAZ Tomb 19 Vessel 15 K           

 

                                                                     

mayavase.com = ER-pc2022-06-05c                 mayavase.com                     mayavase.com

K1383 H3                                                               K2914 N1                               K2914 O4       

nu.“RAZ-EG”                                                          AJ.“RAZ-EG”                          nu.“RAZ-EG”                    

 

                                             

ER-pc2022-06-05a                     ER-pc2022-06-05b               ?.fig5 (ER-pc2022-06-05)

RAZ Stela 2 E3                            RAZ Stela 2 E7                       RAZ Stela 2 C7 

nu.“RAZ-EG”                               nu.“RAZ-EG”                          nu.“RAZ-EG”                             

 

A drawing of a face Description automatically generated                                

(lost reference)    = ER-pc2022-06-05e = mayavase.com                    ER-pc2022-06-05f             

K1446                                                                                                            Earspool Text

nu:“RAZ-EG”                                                                                                nu.“RAZ-EG”                              

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H. There is a listing for NUUN in TOK.p9.r3.c2, but this is for a totally different glyph, considered by some other sources to be a variant of nu. Confusingly, this is precisely the knot-like glyph (or rather, the left half of it) appearing draped over the top and sides of the RAZ-EG head-glyph.

·    Features:

o Human head, generally of a middle-aged to older man.

o With a “mo” in the mouth.

o (Optionally) an L-shaped ear with the shape of the ear of a rabbit but without the water marking inside.

·    There is considerable uncertainty in the reading of this glyph – and the meaning is unknown – but it’s known to be the EG of RAZ. K&L. 25EMC, SM, KuppratApp venture the furthest and gives a proposed reading of NUN? (pronounced nu’n). K&L and 25EMC assign this NUN a tentative meaning of ‘intermediary, ritual speaker’? or refers to someone who “speaks brokenly”. But other sources do not seem to consider this to be the meaning of the logogram in question.

·    Nun / Nuun / Nu’un is also known in the name of:

o The DPL ruler Nu’un Jol Chaak, but there the Nu’un spelled with syllabograms: nu{un}, nu-u{n}, etc. This could be considered the “knot” variant of the syllabogram.

o The TIK ruler Yax Nuun Ahiin, but there the Nu’un spelled with a glyph which could either be considered the “knot” variant of the syllabogram, or a NUUN in its own right. Indeed, it is this “knot” glyph which TOK.p9.r3.c2 treats as NUUN.

o All of the DPL and TIK instances of these rulers’ names resembles what MC.p159.r5.c1.6 and H&S.p33.r1.c5.4 give as nu (but which is no longer considered as such in more recent syllabogram tables).