THi.MAs.l SERIES ON PLATES 'M To 39 oK THE DRESDEN CODEX. 2S7 



111 the upper division of Plate o3, Di-esdeii Codex, are tlie four day 

 columns and lines of numerals over tliem here represented: 



Connected with these numbers is a line of alternate black and red 

 numbers running along over the figures of Plates 33 to 39, division a. 

 There are several breaks and some partially obliterated characters 

 in it which must be restored in order to use it. It has been selected 

 partly on this account, that the method of filling such breaks and 

 making such restorations may be seen. 



Representing the numerals and symbols as heretofore and substi- 

 tuting a cipher where the numbers are wanting or are too much 

 obliterated to be determined by inspection, the series will be as fol- 

 lows: 11. XI; 8-1-20, 0; 12- (or 13), XIII; 6-+- 20, XIII; 12, VII (?); 16 (?), 

 V; 5, X; 1. XI; 20, V; 13, IV, (i, X; 0, V; 5, X; 7, IV; 13 (?), II; 5, VII; 

 8, II; 11, 0. 



Commencing with the XIII over the day columns and counting as 

 heretofore, we obtain the following result : XIII-|-11 — 13 = XI: XI-I- 

 8-l-30-13-13=XIII. The first blank should therefore be filled with 

 XIII. Continuing. XIII4- 13 - 13 = XIII; the black numeral in this 

 case should be 13, although apparently 12 in the codex; XIII-l-G-h20 

 -13-13=XIII; XIII-|-12-13=XII. Here the result obtained dif- 

 fers from the red numeral in the codex, which is apparently one line 

 and two dots, or VII: but, by carefully examining it or inspecting an 

 uncolored copy, the two lines which have been covered in the colored 

 copy by a single broad red line are readily detected. The next black 

 numeral is partially obliterated, the remaining portion indicating 

 16, biit it is apparent from the following red numeral that it should 

 be 19. Making this correction we proceed with our count: XII-|-l!i 

 -13-13=V: V4-o=X; X-M=^XI: XH-30-13-13=V; V-|-13-13=: 

 IV; IV-(-6=X. The next black numeral is obliterated, but is readily 

 restored, as X-|-8-13=V; V + 5 = X: X-|-7-13=IV. The next step 

 presents a difficulty which we are unable to explain satisfactorily. 

 The black numeral to be counted here, which stands over the animal 

 figure in the upper division of Plate 39, is 12, both in Kingsborough's 

 copy and in Forstemann's photograph, and is clear and distinct in 

 each, and the following red numeral is as distinctly II, whereas IV 

 -1-13 — 13 = 111. Moreover it is evident from the remaining numbers 

 in the line that this red numeral should be II. We may assume that 

 the Maya artist has made a mistake and written 13 instead of 1 1. which 



