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| The "La" part of the previous reading Ah Lawal Mat came from the suggestion that the "scroll" element on top was phonetic la rather than logographic NE' (or syllabic ne), as it turns out to be. It is actually a depiction of a tail, and it also occurs in the glyph for the deity GII of the Palenque Triad (on the right above), whose name Nikolai Grube reads as Nen K'awiil (Schele and Mathews, 1993). This produced the suggestion that Aj Ne' Yohl Mat might be better rendered Aj Nen Yohl Mat, but most epigraphers are still not sufficiently comfortable with their understanding of aj ne'. Simon Martin, remarks: "I'd like to know whether it's ajen, aj nen, aj ne' etc. before having more of an idea (personal communication, 2000).". But he also notes that there is a reference for nen ol in the Cordemex. |