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| Now compare these two examples, where the 'u is completely missing, but we know that it is implicit because of the other spellings that we have seen. The glyph on the left (from Copan Stela H) has an antropomorphic K'awiil. It reads 18-b'a-K'AWIIL. In the glyph on the right, the ba gopher and the K'awiil are conflated, for 18-b'a[K'AWIIL], waxaklajuun baah k'awiil. But the ruler's name is not Waxaklajuun Baah K'awiil, "18 Are the Images K'awiil". This makes no sense syntactically. We have to "read in" the "of". The way this is transcribed is with the 'u in parenthesis: 18-('u)-b'a-K'AWIIL in the example on the left, and 18-('u)-b'a[K'AWIIL] on the right. |