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"Slim": the scepter carried in the right arm. (a) The right arm scepter/bloodletter (redrawn by Kent Reilly after Griffin 1985). Note the face on the blade, which identifies this ritual instrument as a personified supernatural and the dotted lines that indicate where the third set of bindings should be located. (b) Four examples of elements that function as "double merlons" (drawing by Kent Reilly, 1988). (c) The Classic Maya personified bloodletter (redrawn by Kent Reilly from Schele and Miller 1986: fig. IV. 1).
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