766 MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS [ETH ANN. 19 
except the 13 to the month Mac. For their determination we are 
indebted chiefly to Mr Goodman, the evidence so far as obtained 
being sufficient to enable us to identify some of them. The date from 
which this series is counted, the beginning of Mr Goodman’s so-called 
fifty-fourth great cycle, is, of course, 4 Ahau 8 Cumbhu, in the year 
8 Ben. Counting forward from this date 9,760 days, the number 
after the calendar rounds are subtracted, brings us to 1 Ahau 13 Mae 
(9 Lamat). the first recorded date. As it is with the latter date, which 
is designated the ** initial date.” though it is not strictly so, that Mr 
Goodman begins his reckoning, we give here his comment on the 
inscription: 
Initial date: 54-1-18-54 x 20-1 Ahau 13 Mae. This date is just fourteen days later 
than the initial date of the preceding inscription [Tablet of the Sun]. The.directive 
series follows, succeeded by a reckoning of 14 chuens and 19 days to 1 Cauac 7 Yax. 
Eleven unreadable zlyphs come next, and then 1-14-1420, which, after four uncer- 
tain directive characters, is declared to be a reckoning to the beginning day score of 
the second cycle, 2 Ahau 3 Uayeb. It is correct. Then come two reckonings in an 
unfamiliar style, the first from the beginning of the great cycle, the second from 1 
Ahau 13 Mac. I am positive of this, for the very next reckoning will show that 
there are 40,000 days to be accounted for somehow, and they can be represented 
only by one of these counts. That reckoning is: 7-7-7-3>16, to 2 Cib 14 Mol. 
Subsequent computations show that date to be the one to which 9-12-18-5x 16 led 
up in the preceding inscription; hence the necessity for something to explain the 
missing 40,000 days. As from this on the reckoning and dates of the two inscrip- 
tions are nearly the same, it is not worth while to repeat them; I will, however, 
give a synopsis showing the position of the dates in both: 
(1), 54-1" 18 5) 35646) 13° Cimi'coiCeh 
(2) 54 1 18 58 4x20 1 Ahauw 13 Mac 
(3) 54 1 18 6 18x19 1C@auac7 Yax 
(4) 54 2 20 20 18X20 2 Ahau 3 Uayeb 
(5) 54 9 3 7 1520) 12) Ahan 8iCeh 
(6) 54 9 10 2 6X6 2 Gimil 19 Zotz 
(7)) eb 69) 110) “80 95e-35 (So Aleball'6 kal 
(8) 54 9 10 10 1820 13 Ahau 18 Kankin 
(9) 54 9 12 1 12X10 8Oc3 Kayab 
(10) 54°9 12 18 5ox<I6- 2 @ib 14+ Mol 
(11) 54 9 13 20 18x20 8 Ahau 8 Uo 

Beginning with the first date, 1 Ahau 13 Mac (which falls in the year 
9 Lamat), in regard to which we follow Mr Goodman’s determina- 
tion, the prefixed number and the day also being face glyphs, we count 
forward 19 days and 14 chuens, or 299 days. This reckoning reaches 
1 Cauac 7 Yax in the year 10 Ben. This is correct, as this date is found 
at B13, Al4 immediately following. This result is important, as it 
furnishes strong evidence of the correctness of the number assigned 
by Mr Goodman to the face glyph attached to the day Ahau. The 
reckoning here is forward, which is presumed to be the direction 
followed by the other series. 
As the next numeral series (C3 to D4, reverse of usual order) is, as I 
