342 AIDS TO THE STUDY OK THE MAYA CODICES. 



days of the columns is 26, and tlic linul n-d numeral is tiie same as 

 that over the columns. 



As the circle of dots is around the final red nnml)er iind also around 

 each of those over the columns, the distinction indicated must refer 

 to one or more days of each cokimn. 



As the last days only of the columns are year bearers, the mark of 

 distinction probably applies to them. Selecting for the left hand col- 

 umn the Ix series of years and commencing with 1 Oc, the seven- 

 teenth day of the eighth month, we count 36 days. This brings us to 

 1 Cib, the third day of the tenth month, or tenth figure column of our 

 calendar and second day of the first day column of the series; 26 days 

 more to 1 Ik; 26 more to 1 Lamat, and 26 more to 1 Ix, the first day 

 of the year 1 Ix, which, according to the four year series, will be the 

 first year of an Indication. Select iiii;- the Kan series for the second 

 column and counting in the same way tiom 1 Ahau, the seventeenth 

 day of the eighth month, or eighth figure cijlumn of the calendar, the 

 last day is found to be 1 Kan, the first day of the year 1 Kan, wliich 

 mnst also be the first year of an Indication. 



Unit numerals iiiai-ke<l in this manner are fonnd in two or three 

 places in till' ( 'ertc'siaii ('ih|(-x. Init t lure is inMie in the Di'esden Co- 

 dex. The series with which they are conneVted in the former, except 

 that in the middle divisiiju of Plate 24, are too much obliterated to 

 be traced throughout. This, by making two slight and apparently 

 authorized corrections, is as follows: 

 i) 



Cimi I 



Ezanab - 11, XII (?); 11, X: 6, III: 8. XI: 7 (?). V: 9. I. 



Oc \ 



Ik 



Ix 



The first red numeral of the line is X in the original and the next to 

 the last black number is 6. By changing the former to XII and the 

 latter to 7 the sum of the series will be 52, which is the interval between 

 the days of the column. 



Using the Ix column in the calendar and commencing with 1 Cimi, 

 counting as heretofore, the last day of the column of the series is 

 found to be 1 Ix, the first day of the year 1 Ix and the first year of an 

 Indication, according to the four year system. 



A somewhat remarkable confirmation of the theory here advanced 

 is jjresented in a series found in the middle division of Plate II of the 

 Manuscript Troano. 



The series, when written out with the substitutes heretofore used, 

 is as folhjws: 



