(34 MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS [ETH. ANN. 19 
initial series. This is shown not only in initial series like the one 
here represented, where numeral prefixes are face characters, but 
in a number of others where the ordinary units, balls and lines, 





Fic, 17a—Inseription on the right slab of the Tablet of the Cross, 
Palenque. 
are prefixed to the glyphs representing the lower orders (cycles, 
katuns, ete.). Another reason for this belief is that positive evidence 
is found in the Dresden codex and in the inscriptions that there is an 
