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aboriginal artist to be given at this point, we next try the connections 
forward. 
The other dates and series in the middle space after 13 Ahau 18 
Kankin ? (or Kayab 7), already mentioned, are the following: A date 
at O1, O2 over the hands of the right priest. This is too badly detaced 
to be determined; all that can be positively asserted is that the number 
of the day of the month is 3, thus rendering it certain that it must be 
Ahau, Chicchan, Oc or Men. The number of the day was small, 
seemingly 3 or 4, but evidently not exceeding 8; Maudslay’s drawing 
gives 8. The corresponding date on the Tablet of the Sun as given by 
Goodman is 8 Oc 3 Kayab, and the same date is found correspond- 
ingly on the Tablet of the Foliated Cross. The next numeral series 
(2, middle space) is found in the second and third glyphs of column R, 
immediately behind the shoulders of the right priest. This appears by 
inspection to be 6 days, 11 chuens, 6 ahaus = 2,386 days. Maudslay, 
in his drawing of this inscription in part 10 of his work, makes the 
number of chuens 13, taking for granted, as seems to be indicated, 
though it is somewhat doubtful, that the two outer dots have been 
broken away. This would increase the total number of days to 2,426, 
while the true number appears to be 2,386. 
Before attempting to make connections between the dates on the 
middle space and those which follow we will pass to the columns of the 
inscription on the right slab. The first date is found in glyphs T2, 
S3, viz: 11 —? 20 Pop. The day can not be determined by inspec- 
tion. However, it must be Caban, Ik, Manik, or Eb, these being the 
only days which fall on the 20th day of the month. The number pre- 
fixed to the month in this instance is the full-count or 20 symbol, two 
semicircles. Before reaching a numeral series another date occurs at 
glyphs S4, T4, as follows: 5 —? 14 Kayab? The day can not be 
determined with certainty, but is apparently Cimi, or Cib, most likely 
the former; the month symbol is somewhat indistinct, but appears to 
be that of Kayab. The corresponding date in the inscription of the 
Tablet of the Sun and also of the Tablet of the Foliated Cross is 2 
Cib 14 Mol, but in the former it is preceded by + Ahau 8 Cumhu, whose 
position is occupied in the Tablet of the Cross now under consideration 
by the 5 —? 14 Kayab? above mentioned. There is no recognizable 
numeral series in the middle space of either the Tablet of the Sun or 
Tablet of the Foliated Cross, but it is a singular fact that the second 
numeral series of the middle space of the Tablet of the Cross, given in 
the above list as 2,386 days, is exactly the lapse of time (counting 
forward) from 8 Oc 3 Kayab to 2 Caban 14 Mol in the Tablet of the 
Sun and Tablet of the Foliated Cross, and the 537 days of the first series 
in this space also connects the first and second dates in the middle space 
of the Sun Tablet, viz: 9 Akbal 6 Xul and 13 Ahau 18 Kankin. It is 
possible that these three inscriptions are dependent to some extent one 
upon the other, or are based upon an older and lost original. 
