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Mr. Stephen’s division of this long, and imperfect, inscription is into 
seven lines, the direction of which, from left to right, he has 
accurately judged. The first two characters of the first group in line 1 
are the same as those constituting D 8 in the Palenque Tablet, and 
their phonetic equivalents, as has appeared, are “un toh. But these are 
followed in the same group by the symbol ¢han, after which comes cad 
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The Akatzeeb Inscription of Chichen-Itza. 
or caban in a cartouche. Below it is an apparent /ahun, 10, followed by 
ox, 3; but on comparison, it appears that the supposed /ahun is an 
expedient for yzb, a bean, and that the or must be read, not after, but 
before it. This group, therefore, furnishes the sentence: “ Huntoh tan 
cab Oxyib:” “Huntoh in the land of Oxyib.” The second group also 
begins with fun toh. After the Aun, 1, comes fet, the circle, then Zuz, 
