750 MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS [ETH. ANN. 19 
calendar rounds or 265,720 days, leaving a balance of 9,200 days. 
Subtracting from this 205, the remaining days of the year 10 Akbal, 
and dividing the remainder by 365, we obtain 24 years and 235 days, 
or 11 months and 15 days. Referring to table 3, and counting for- 
ward 24 years from 10 Akbal and passing to the year following, we 
reach 9 Lamat. By table 1 we find that the 15th day of the 12th 
month of the year 9 Lamat is 9 Ik, the 15th day of the month Ceh. 
This is correct, and proves (what Mr Goodman also claims for his count) 
that our decision as to the dates and the naught symbol is also correct. 
We pass to the series which follows (4, left slab). This is described 
by Mr Goodman thus: 
Six unintelligible glyphs follow; then there is a reckoning of 2-1-7-11 2, succeeded 
by four directive signs, to 9 Ik 20 Zac. I call attention to the directive signs. Two 
of them are the bissextile character and its coadjutor, which I think are employed 
in Palenque to denote different numbers of calendar rounds. These should denote 
fifteen, if intended to indicate the length of the reckoning; if to express an addi- 
tional period, it is uncertain how many. The other two directive signs are identical 
with two of those used after 1 Ahau 18 Zotz to show the reckoning is from that 
date. This reckoning is also from that date; hence the glyph consisting of a bird’s 
head and two signs for 20 over it probably indicates an initial date, or a substitute for 
it, as 1 Ahau 18 Zotz would appear to be in this case. The month symbol is wrong 
here also. It should be Yax instead of Zac. 
The next date is at E9, F9, which, as there given, appears to be 9 Ik 
20 Zac, and the series is 2 days, 11 chuens, 7 ahaus, 1 katun, and 2 
cycles at E5 to F6, the symbols being of the usual form. As this will 
not connect 9 Ik 20 Zac with the,preceding date, 9 Ik 15 Ceh (El F1), 
we will reckon from 1 Ahau 18 Zotz (A16 B16), as Mr Goodman sug- 
gests. This date falls in the year 2 Akbal. 
The count 2-1-7-11 x 2, when conyerted into days, is as follows: 
Days 
DICY CLES Sat crate ott tee oie ane a ee Stee eee eee 288, 000 
OLS bh oe A Risk Nee oe Se A BSL Be ee A a 7, 200 
FT ADBUSGS Soo eee wee nenhe Seas ee oe eR eee ae eee 2,520 
TIP CHUCH Sack fesece ae Os Oooo Eee ee oan oe ee ee 220 
P26 a ele oe pt Sy RES Ao REIS OSes Atria See PS = 2 
Totaleorer esac eee ee ee ee eee eee 297, 942 
Subtracting from this 15 calendar rounds—284,700 days—we get 
13,242 days. Subtracting from this 287, the remaining days of the 
year 2 Akbal, after 1 Ahau 18 Zotz, and dividing the remainder 
by 365, we obtain 35 years and 180 days, or 9 months. Counting 35 
years from 2 Akbal, on table 3, we reach 11 Ezanab. As the next 
year will be 12 Akbal, by counting on table 1 nine months in this 
year, we reach 9 Ik, the 20th day of the month Chen. This corresponds 
with the inscription except as to the month, which is 20 Zac. The 
count as given by Mr Goodman is 20 Yax, which is identical in his 
system with 20 Chen according to the system I am following. His 
