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STELA D 
The inscription on Stela D presents the unusual feature of giving 
the symbols in the form of the entire body of the person or animal, 
instead of simply the head, of which a parallel, so far as I am aware, 
is found only in some of the Mexican codices. No series except the 
initial one is recognizable. Some aid, however, may be obtained from 
this singular inscription in determining the signification of the time 
and numeral symbols. For example, the cycle and katun symbols 
have each, as an essential portion of the glyph, a bird form in connec- 
tion with the human figure, the ahau has a nondescript monster; the 
chuen, what I take to be a frog, and the symbol for the month Zotz 
(if Mr Goodman be correct in his determination), the figure of a leaf- 
nosed bat. The grand cycle, or initial glyph, has as the sidepiece 
(each side) a fish. Iam inclined to believe that these figures, which 
(with the exception of the bat) appear to be unessential for the deter- 
mination of the time periods or orders of units, are used as symbolic 
of the names assigned to these periods. 
The initial series in this case, as determined by Mr Goodman, is 
54-9-5-5-0-0 to 4 Ahau 13 Zotz. 
STELZ E AND F 
Stela E presents no recognizable initial or other series or determin- 
able dates. The same may be said of Stela F, though Mr Goodman 
gives an initial series which is confessedly presented ‘‘ irrespective of 
the reading of the inscription.” 
STELZ H AND I 
Passing over Stela H, whose inscriptions present no connected dates, 
we come to that on Stela I. Fortunately we have good photographs 
by Maudslay of the inscriptions on this Stela. The initial series as 
given by Mr Goodman is 54th great cycle, 9 cycles, 12 katuns, 3 ahaus, 
14 chuens, 0 days—5 Ahau—*‘the month date should be 8 Uo, but the 
glyph which here follows after the initial directive series is obliter- 
ated.” The ahau symbol is here the figure of a bird’s head, and the 
number a symbol. The month symbol, which Mr Goodman says is 
obliterated, is, on the contrary, quite distinct, the only injury being 
a slight break in the attached numeral, which appears to be 8. The 
month symbol is apparently that of Chen; if of Uo, it is a quite unu- 
sual form. However, as this does not connect with any other date, we 
turn to the inscription on the north side. 
Mr Goodman’s statement in regard to this inscription is as follows: 
There 10 Ahau 13 Chen is designated as the beginning of a katun—an Sth katun as 
given * * * There follows a reckoning of 8 days and 10 chuens from 10 Ahau 
13 Chen to 10 Lamat—the month date not given, but we know it must be 16 Pop. 
