Doe, CENTRAL AMERICAN PICTURE-WRITING. 
RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF PALENQUE CROSS TABLET (Rav). 
2020 2021 2022. 2025 2024 2025 
ee ——— ——— 
2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 
2010 2041 2042 f 2025 2020 2021 
A 
2050 2051 2034 | 2053 2054 2055 
Oe go es 
2053 2061 2062 2063 2064 2065 
2070 2071 2020 2021 20222 20247 | 
oon ee ee : 
2053 2020 2082 2083 2025 2053 
2021 2091 2092 (2025 2094 2005 
3000 2023 2034 | 2058 2033 3005 
aD ie aed ia) 
3010 2083 3012 2024 3014 2001 
2053 3021 2023 2020 3024 2024 
2024 2025 2021 3033 | 2025 2034+ 
ea det RO RA Lal esoly 
q 
2053+ 3021 3042 3043 2035 3045 
3050 2083 | 2025 2034 3054 3055 
See 2082 
2024 2020 2035 3063 2024 2025 
2021 2031 2020 2021 2035 3045 
See 
3080 3081 2091 2093 2020 2021 
¥ | 
14 cases of horizontal pairs; 4 cases of vertical pairs; 192 characters in all, of which 51 ap- 
pear more than once, so that there are but 51 independent hieroglyphs. 
Here the first two lines are unchanged. In the third line we find that 
2043 is the same as 2025, 2044 = 2020, 2045 = 2021, and so on, and we 
write the smallest number in each case. 
After this is done, connect like pairs by braces whenever they are 
consecutive, either vertical or horizontal. Take the pair 2020 and 2021 
for example; 2020 occurs eight times in the tablet, viz, as 2020, 2044, 
2072, 2081, 3023, 3061, 3072, 3084. In five out of the eight cases, it is 
followed by 2021, viz, as 2021, 2045, 2073, 3073, 3085. 
Jt is clear this is not the result of accident. The pair 2020 and 2021 
means something, and when the two characters occur together they must 
be read together. There is no point of punctuation between them. We 
