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| Now let's talk about the T-shaped element in the middle of the second name glyph. This is evocative of the calendar day-sign Ik' and accounts for the "Ik'" component of the current name of Lady Yohl Ik'nal, as well as the former names Lady Ik, Lady Kan-Ik, and Lady K'anal-Ik'al. Like all month signs, the glyph for the month Ik' is surrounded by a "cartouche", sometimes called a "TV set" because of the general shape and the "legs" on the bottom. (The "legs" are not always part of the cartouche.) Absent the cartouche, this glyph is number T503 in Thompson's catalog (Thompson 1962a). Glyphs are generally read differently when outside the calender cartouche, and this accounts for the absence of "Ik'" in the name "Lady Olnal", one of the names by which this ruler was once known. Reasonable epigraphic deduction had led to the conclusion that T503, with its T-shaped element, should be read as NAL when outside the day-sign cartouche. Thus the second name glyph above, which as we have seen also has NAL on top, was thought to be the "full-form" of NAL. |