ee, MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS [ETH. ANN.19 
appears almost like a trick here: the number of chuens is not designated by three 
dots, but by three signs for 3) ..... (and) 12 ahaus..... reckoning back- 
wards, (by) katuns (probably a manner of denoting the reckoning to be a long one) 
Ae ee (to) 8Ahau.....13 Pop..... (1,040) bissextile periods (in addi- 
tion. It is impossible, with our imperfect knowledge of the Maya numerals, to say 
just how this number of bissextile periods is expressed; but a subsequent reckoning 
shows that 80 calendar rounds, or 1,040 four-year periods, are implied here.) ..... 
reckoning backwards... . . (an unintelligible glyph; though, as is very like some 
we have just seen employed in scanning the katuns, it probably has the same signifi- 
cance as the katun sign previously made use of to indicate a long reckoning) .... . 
(tothe) 5 Lamat..... LENCO ieee (that is) 8 days, 4 chuens..... (and) 
2eaNnausie cee (from the) 3 Ahau, beginning a katun.....3Zotz..... a 
twentieth ahau (or beginning of akatun)—1 day,12 chuens..... EWE 5 5S 5 
OFKATITIE Serer (and) 2icyclesyw-n (the count covering) 18 calendar rounds 
seats (from, or to—for it is uncertain if the reckoning is intended to fix the posi- 
tion of the date 5 Lamat-1 Mol more circumstantially, or is a separate reckoning 
back from it) the tenth score (or fifth double score) of days, (in the) seventh cycle 
Dine eicie (and) 7 days... . . (from the) twentieth (or beginning score). .... 1 
MES 5 5 5 5% 10 Tzec (there is a mistake somewhere, as the date at that point 
is 9 Manik-20 Zotz) ..... the beginning of a seventh day (or 7-day period). 
Reckoning backwards, (by) katuns... . . (an unintelligible glyph, though it prob- 
ably indicates a period of some kind)... . . 8 days, 5chuens..... 10 ahaus 
Baa G t ll katuns..... (and) 10 cycles... .. (to) a date appearing some dis- 
tance back (8 Ahau-13 Pop: the reckoning here is an exact repetition, though in a 
different style, of the first of the preceding ones). ... . (from the) 5 Lamat..... 
Matos SS se (that is) 1 calendar round..... (and) 8days..... (an unin- 
telligible glyph)... .. (fromthe) 10Ahau..... IBS NERA ahy Soe oc appearing 
some distance back.—5 Lamat-l Mol..... AS Manin eps 10 Zip (I haye no 
notion what these two isolated dates can mean, unless the former is a mere redundant 
repetition of the date from which all the reckonings have been made; but the latter 
has no apparent relation to anything else in the text).—1l cycle... . . 9 katuns 
BPe oat 6 (and) 16 ahaus.... . (an unintelligible directive sign; the reckoning, 
however, is from 10 Ahau-13 Yaxkin, beginning the fouth ahau of the tenth katun 
of the tenth ceycle—showing an abrupt and unaccountable leap forward) .... . (to 
the) twentieth (or beginning) score days... . . beginning the twelfth cycle. 
The dates and numeral series in this portion of the inscription, taken 
in the order they come in the figure given above, are as follows: 
10 Ahau 13 Yaxkin (8 Lamat) Days 
1 12/29 “8 SyAthauw 3iPop? i(9pbamat)ioosceasceseeecesee 4, 508 
5 Lamat 1 Mol (8 Lamat) 
2 DA oo SoS} SeAhaulys Zotz (6) Bzenab) @aesesemeee cess see S08 
3 et Sole ee ah 1 Manik 10Tzec (3 Ezenab) (353,401) ...... 11, 761 
4 10 11 10 5 8 5Lamat 1Mol (8 Lamat) (1,522,908) -..-.... 4,508 
5 Se 1OAhan WAsihvaxking (Samat) ieee secesase = ses 8 
5 Lamat 1 Mol (8 Lamat) 
4 Manik 10 Zip (7 Ezenab) 
6 92, 167, 10) 10)" \(movdate): 1(214, 560?) Seasoceeeseeseee sess aa ace 5,780? 
The first date (A1, B1) is 10 Ahau 13 Yaxkin; the next (A5, BS) is 8 
Ahau 13 Pop. The glyph A2, which is one calendar round, is not 
included in the intermediate count. The intermediate numeral sym- 
bols (A383, B3) are 8 days, 3 or 9 chuens, 12 ahaus. Although there are 
only 3 dots or balls representing the chuens, they are, from their size 
