764 MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS [ETH. ANN. 19 
to be determined by the dates, or from the numeral series in the cor- 
responding position in the Tablet of the Cross. Be this as it may, it 
is certain that the first numeral series in the middle space of the 
latter tablet—537 days—measures exactly the lapse of time from 9 
Akbal 6 Xul to 13 Ahau 18 Kankin of the Sun Tablet; and that 2,386 
days, the second series in the middle space of the Tablet of the Cross, 
is exactly the time from 8 Oc 3 Kayab (middle space) to 2 Cib 14 Mol, 
second date on the right slab of the Tablet of the Sun. This result, 
however, would seem to be contrary to the evidence adduced of the 
direct connection between the inscriptions of the left and right slabs; 
nevertheless it is a remarkable coincidence which depends on some 
fact in regard to the series not yet ascertained. Possibly these form 
a separate succession of series. 
IT have been unable to find any connection between either of the 
dates of the right slab which precede the first numeral series and any 
one which follows. This series in reverse order is 3 days, 12 chuens 
(glyph P16), 6 ahaus (QI), and 7 katuns (R1), equal 52,803 days, or, 
after subtracting 2 calendar rounds, 14,843 days. Using the latter 
and counting forward trom 12 Ahau (Q2) 8 Ceh (R2), year 6 Ben, we 
reach 9 Akbal (Q6) 6 Xul (R6), year 8 Ezanab. Here also both dates 
follow the numeral series. 
Following the last-mentioned date, at Q11, R11 is the numeral series 
18 days, 2 chuens, 6 ahaus, or 2,218 days. This is followed at Ql2 
R12 by the date 2 Cimi 19 Zotz (year 2 Lamat), which is followed at 
Qi4, R14 by the numeral series 12 days, 8 chuens, 1 ahau (left portion 
of R14), and this is followed at R14 (right portion) and Q15 by the 
date 13 Ahau 18 Kankin. It will be observed that two of these dates 
are the same as the first and second dates of the middle space. It seems 
from the reckonings which follow that the number of days in the second 
numeral series should be 2,217 instead of 2,218. Subtracting 2,217 
from the first series (14,843), the remainder—12,626 days—exactly 
measures the lapse of time from 12 Ahau 8 Ceh, year 6 Ben, of the first 
series, to 2 Cimi 19 Zotz, year 2 Lamat, of the second series. Count- 
ing forward 2,217 days from 2 Cimi 19 Zotz we reach 9 Akbal 6 Xul, 
year 8 Ezanab; this may be the first date in the middle space, and not 
the 9 Akbal 6 Xul which precedes the second series of the right slab, as 
Goodman contends, which would be a backward count as stated in the 

quotation on page 761; or it may bean omitted date. Counting 537 days 
(532 in third series right slab should evidently be 537, the number given 
between the same dates in the middle space of the Tablet of the Cross) 
from 9 Akbal 6 Xul, we reach 13 Ahau 18 Kankin, third series and last 
date on the right slab; or, adding together the second and third series— 
the 2,217 and 537, making 2,754 days—and counting forward from 2 
Cimi 19 Zotz, year 2 Lamat, we also reach 13 Ahau 18 Kankin. These 
results seem to justify the slight corrections made in the numerals. 
