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Glyph B19

1 tunix or tumix   --  Schele, 1988

1 tun   --  Robertson, 1985


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Drawing: Merle Greene Robertson

"The phonetic value of this glyph is now readable as tun or tum with yi and ix. The former root does not offer a likely gloss for the 819-day Count event, but the latter is listed in the Cordemex as 'to put things in order' (Schele, 1988)."