THOMAS] TIKAL INSCRIPTIONS 775 
ceding and dates following, but I am unable to make connections by 
including or excluding the above symbol, either by counting backward 
or forward, though the date which follows is clearly determined by a 
computation, given above. 
TrKAL INSCRIPTIONS 
Our next examples will be from the Tikal inscriptions, but here we 
will use Rosny’s photograph of the so-called ** Bas-Relief de Bernoulli” 
(Les Does., Ecrits de L’ Antiq. Americain, Mem. Soc. Ethn. vol. 1, 1881), 
Maudslay’s figures not being at hand. Rosny’s plates 10-11 represent 
a standing individual literally overwhelmed with ornaments and over- 
arched by a great serpent, from whose wide-open jaws protrude the 
head, shoulders, and arms of a human form. In the upper left-hand 
and right-hand corners are the inscriptions, each of four columns. The 
carving in this case is on wood. The inscription in the upper left- 
hand corner is shown in part in our figure 19. 
The first two glyphs (A1, B1) represent the date 3 Ahau 3 Mol, 
which falls in the year 4 Ezanab. At B3, A4 is the 
next date, 11 Ik, and apparently 15 Chen. The 
number symbols between these are (B2),2 days, 2 
chuens, and (A3), 2 ahaus, together equal to 762 
days. Counting forward 762 days from the first 
date (8 Ahau 3 Mol), we reach 11 Ik 15 Chen in the 
year 6 Lamat, which is correct. T 
The inscription on plate 12, same work, com- *§3%2 A) 
mences, like the first, with 3 Ahau 3 Mol, but the (an eres 
numbers are too much injured, until the lower half leearsre: 
is reached, to trace the series correctly. The seventh !6.18—Part of the in- 
glyph in the right column and eighth in the left give pier Son 
the date 7 Ben 1 Pop. Near the bottom are two numeral symbols 
giving 7 days, 2 chuens and 3 ahaus, equal to 1,127 days, followed 
by a date 3 Ahau 13 —? the month date being nearly obliterated. 
Counting forward from 7 Ben 1 Pop in the year 7 Ben 1,127 days, 
we reach 3 Ahau the 13th day of the month Uo in the year 10 Lamat. 
This is correct, as the portion of the month symbol remaining is not 
inconsistent with the Uo symbol in the Dresden codex. 
It is noticeable that all the chuen symbols in these two inscriptions 
are face forms, the ahau symbols ordinary and face forms. It may 
also be remarked in passing that the glyphs in these inscriptions are 
the most delicately and tastefully ornamented of any which have so 
far been found in Central America or Mexico. 
On plate 13, same work, is a brief inscription from the same bas- 
relief. The first date is —? Ahau 13 Pop, the number to the left of 
Ahau being defaced. Following these are the numerals 18 days, 7 
chuens, equal to 158 days, and the date 11 Ezanab 11 —? the month 
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