TH.ijiAs.J EXPLANATION OF SERIES ON PLATES 43 AND 1. 279 



through division c. Substituting- names and numbers as heretofore, 

 they are as foHows: 



Plate 4;.>: IV Ahau; XU Lamat; VU Cib; U Kan; X Eb; V Ahau; Xm Lamat. 



ir 8 8 S 8 8 8 



Plate 43: IV Chicehan; Xn Been: Vn Ymix; II Muluc; X Caban; V Chicchan; XIII Been, 



17 8 8 8 8 8 8 



Plate I: rv' Oc: Xn Ezanab; VII Cimi; n Ix; X Ik; V Oc; (?) Ezanab. 



IT 8 8 8 8 8 8 



Plate a: IV Men: Xm Akbal; VUChiien; H Cauac; X Manik; V Men; Xm Akbal. 

 V » 8 8 8 8 8 



Tlie cliief (jbjects in view at present in selecting this series are. as 

 before indicated, to prove the relation of the plates to one another and 

 to determine the use of the black numerals which stand under the day 

 symbols. These numerals consist of but two different numbers, the 

 first on each page being 17, the rest 8's. 



As the particular year or years to which the series refers is unknown 

 we turn to our calendar — Table II — and select the Kan column, as we 

 find that 4 Ahau, the first day of the series, is the seventeenth day of 

 the year 1 Kan. This corresponds with the first black numeral. 

 Counting 8 days from this we reach 13 Lamat. the second day of our 

 series; 8 more bring us to 7 Cib, the third day of the series; 8 more 

 to 3 Kan; 8 more to 10 Eb; 8 more to 5 Ahau; 8 more to 13 Lamat. 

 and 17 more to 4 Chicchan. The red numeral at this point in some 

 of the colored copies of Kingsborough's work is III. but a close in- 

 spection shows the missing dot which has not 1ieen colored. IV Chic- 

 chan is therefore correct. 



Continuing our count, 8 days more bring us to 13 Been; 8 more to 



7 Ymix; 8 more to 2 Muluc; 8 more to 10 Caban; 8 more to 5 Chic- 

 chan; 8 more to 13 Been; 17 more to 4 Oc; 8 more to 13 Ezanab; 8 

 more to 7 Cimi; 8 more to 3 Ix; 8 more to 10 Ik; 8 more to .5 Oc, and 



8 more to 13 Ezanab. Here the red numeral is wanting, but a com- 

 parison of the numbers on the different plates and the order of the 

 series make it evident that it should be XIII. 



Continuing our count. 17 more bring us to 4 Men (here a dot is 

 missing in Kingsborough's copy, but is present in the photograph); 

 s more to 13 Akbal. Here there is one dot too many, which we may 

 attribute to a mistake of the original artist. Assuming XII to be 

 correct, 8 more bring us to 7 Chuen; 8 more to 3 Cauac; 8 more to 10 

 Manik; 8 more to 5 Men; 8 more to 13 Akbal, and to the end of our 

 table; thus, if we include the first seventeen days, completing the 

 series of thirteen months or 300 days. 



These illustrations will probably satisfy any one that the black 

 numerals in these lines denote the intervals between the days indi- 

 cated by the symbols and that the series so far examined are to be 

 read from left to right. 



Although the succession of days and numbers in the lines of the 

 last example would seem to furnish conclusive evidence that the 



