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| And if T23 na was acting as a compound sign element to IK' inside the cartouche at Rio Azul, then it must be substituting for IK' on the Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway, on the principal of pars pro toto, the part representing the whole. Above we read 'i-K'A'-yi 'u-SAK-NICH?-IK'-li, 'i k'a'ay 'usak nich? ik'il, "then his white flowery? breath diminished". (The -li suffix provides the -il which marks the compound noun "white-flower?-wind" as being possessed, i.e. "his", with the name of the possessor customarily appearing in the next glyph blocks [Marc Zender, personal communcation, 2000].) |