[Aztlan] Sayil glyphs question

[Lorna Huff]

Hi Everyone,

Some of my Sayil photos have been kindly hosted at Virtual Mesoamerican 
Archives and I'm now in the process of writing short text descriptions to go 
with the pictures. On one of the buildings ('South group structure1') there 
is a row of glyphs that I would like to mention in the write-up along with 
its possible translation. The John Montgomery Dictionary (a fairly new 
resource for me) contains a few glyphs that resemble the symbols on the 
structure. For instance, (T561c) appears somewhat similar to the glyph that 
looks like a frontal view of a serpent’s open jaw with eye beads and 
fangs...So I wonder if I should read this glyph as a variant on 'CHAAN/KAAN' 
  meaning possibly ‘ sky ’ or ‘captor', or homophonously ‘four’ and ‘snake’ 
? The other legible glyphs in the row seem to be number signs.

Any interpretative feedback from listeros to provide some context and 
identity would be much appreciated. The structure and the glyphs were 
previously posted at Aztlan in Volume 19, Issue 4 (June 4/07) and can be 
seen at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Lorna.Huff/AncientMayaYucatanPhotos03/photo#5063.

The VMA link is  
http://whp.oregon.edu/DigitalCahuleu/Galleries/Huff/huffgal.html

Gracious,
Lorna

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