THOMAS.) SERIES ON PLATES ol TO 58. 323 



say, Ik is the foiirteeiitli day of the month in Muluc years, Caiiac the 

 eleventh, Cib the eighth. Been tlie fifth, Oc the second, and Ezanah 

 the tenth. This h.il.Is -( .< ,,1 tlir. .ugli Platrs .V2/< t. . r,>ih witli. .ut a single 

 exception, proviili'd till' iliaiin mil slia]>c<l s\ inh.il in the t<nii-1 1 1 column 

 of Plate 556 is counted as ■,'(). Tliis test, tlicivf.nv, pivscnts fewer 

 exceptions than are found in counting the intervals as before ex- 

 plained; yet, after all, this would necessarily result from the fact 

 that the <lay Muluc was selected as the conuncncement of the series, 

 and lii'iicc may have no significatinn in I'dVivnce to or bearing on 

 tlic (|iu'stic)u of the year series, especially as the years counted are 

 evidently of 360 days. 



Returning now to our Table VIII, representing Plate 53a, we ob- 

 serve that the number immediately over Kan in the first column is 

 17, whereas Kan is the sixteenth day of the month. Is it not possible 

 that the intention was to designate as the ceremonial day Chicchan, 

 standing immediately below, which is the seventeenth day of the 

 month in Muluc years? Even though there is no reference to Muluc 

 years, the intervals may be given upon the same idea, that of reach- 

 ing, for some particular reason, the second or third day of the col- 

 umn instead of the first. This would account for the compensation 

 of which Dr. Forstemann speaks, without implying any mistake on 

 the part of the writer. These irregularities would then be inten- 

 tional variations from the order of the series, yet so as not to break 

 the general plan. 



The interval between 6 Kan of the first column (with the mouth 

 number corrected) and 1 Ymix of the second is 8 mouths and 17 days, 

 as it should be; between 6 Muluc and 1 Cimi, 8 months and 17 days; 

 and between 1 Cimi and 9 Akbal, 8 months and 17 days, thus con- 

 forming to the rule heretofore given, a fact which holds good as a 

 general rule throiigho\it that portion of the series in the upper divis- 

 ioii. 



Continuing the addition as heretofore we note the variations. 



' One line has been omitted in the numeral symbol. 

 'Here we have again the added day. 



