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| Once the death phrase was more carefully scrutinized, Barbara MacLeod, Linda Schele, and Nikolai Grube noted two instances from the Hieroglyphic Stairs at Copan where the IK' sign was replaced by the glyph T23 from the Thompson catalog, which is ordinarily read as the syllable na. Above we seem to have 'i-K'A'-yi 'u-SAK-NICH-na-li, 'i k'a'ay 'usak nich nal, "then his white flowery(?) place diminishes (or diminished)". In other words, it looks very much like the T503 sign, which was always IK' when inside the day-sign cartouche, must be NAL when it appeared outside the cartouche, as suggested by the phonetic substitution na-li, nal. Hence the decision to call the ruler Lady Olnal. |