| This is the caption identifying a figure depicted on a travertine vase in the Dumbarton Oaks collection. The third glyph is clearly the Palenque emblem glyph, read "Divine Palenque Lord", a title carried only by rulers of Palenque. David Stuart has observed that the prefix of the center glyph is ch'a, as in Casper's name. And he has proposed that the next part of the glyph is the head variant of Casper's main sign. (The first glyph is ch'o-ko, ch'ok, literally meaning "youth" but more generally signifying "of noble blood". The emblem glyph is the "wavy bone" spelling of B'aakal, the name of the Palenque kingdom. The little God C head in the superfix of the emblem glyph is part of the word k'uhul, "divine". It is technically referred to as a compound sign element, since it appears in conjunction with the "droplets" element and together they stand for the logogram K'UH (k'uhul is the adjectival form). The AJAW is a "conflation", or a merging, of the normal two "balls" into one). |