Almanac: 108c-109c Frame: 1
The aged earth goddess, Sak Ix Kab', holds a plate containing what resembles honey(comb) above a T526 kab’ glyph (beehive) that rests on top of a stone platform (represented by a T528 glyph). A bee hovers above the scene. Drawing after Villacorta C. and Villacorta (1976:440).
Themes
beekeeping -- extracting honey
directional association -- north
Hieroglyphic Text
- caption 1: u-kab'-b'a//k'uh//sak-ix(ik) kab'//ox-wi'il? (White Lady Earth's bees [are in] the north; abundance of food?.)
Iconography
deity: Ix Kab' (aged)glyph: stone platform (T528)
glyph: hive (T526)
object: honeycomb
animal: bee
object: container