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But in an inscription from the Temple of the Sun recording that an event involving a later ruler, K'an Joy Chitam I, happened at Toktan, we find (at P5) the spelling to-ko-TAN-na. (At P2-Q2 is the date 12 Ajaw 8 Keh. P3 depicts a hand holding a mirror, which reads "he was held", referring to K'an Joy Chitam, whose name appears at P4. The sense is that K'an Joy Chitam was held in an office or featured in a ceremony, the sign for which appears as the second half of Q3 [Marc Zender, personal communication, 2000]. Q4 reads "it happened at". And P5 is Toktan, with to over ko on the left, and TAN over the phonetic complement -na on the right.) A note from Marc Zender: The "hand-with-mirror" is actually the full-form of K'AL, "to hold" - the mirror is just normally hidden by SAK-HU'N [royal headdress], TUUN [year], K'AWIIL [deity of rulership] or whatever other object is being affected. The evidence for this is on Stela 1 of Sacchana (and elsewhere), where the traditional period-ending 'U-K'AL-wa TUUN-ni statement is written with the TUUN-ni pulled away from the hand and in the next glyph-block, all of which causes the mirror to "reappear" in the full-form of the K'AL sign. |