48 CALENDAR OF THE DRESDEN CODEX. [eth.nol 



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This result must necessarily be true, as the series comprises exactly 

 two cj^cles (i. e., between Oib and Cib— the count back to Ymix being- 

 arbitrary) ; moreover, it contravenes the supposition that one or more 

 days are added after certain periods to compensate for the fraction of a 

 day required to render the year exact. Even were these added days 

 without names, the numberiug- would go on, and would become manifest 

 in the count. To assume that they were added without name or number 

 is a mere hypothesis. If the count runs through 104 years according 

 to the regular system, without the loss or addition of a day, very posi- 

 tive evidence will be required to show the addition of these comj)en- 

 sating days. 



It may be said that the foregoing count has not extended through 

 the entire series, and that added days may be found somewhere before 

 the end is reached. But the contrary is readily shown by referring to 

 table 1. As all the days in a column are the same, and the intervals 

 the same for all the horizontal lines, it is evident that the number of 

 days in each horizontal line is the same. It is therefore certain that 

 there are no supernumerary days in the entire series. 



The count given above also shows that the series just examined, 

 which is based on the upper line of month symbols, does not form a con- 

 nection with thatof the second line of month symbols which commences 

 with 3 Cib, the ninth day of the mouth Zac* in the year 3 Lamat. 

 This series, although using the same day columns and the same 

 counters or intervals as those of the first line of month symbols, must 

 necessarily be distinct; for if continuous it should commence with pre- 

 cisely the same date as the ilrst, since it starts a new cycle, or perhaps 

 more correctly at the same point in the cycle as the first. If this sec- 

 ond series is traced through in the same way as the first, it is necessary 

 to remember to count back 11 mouths and 16 days from 3 Cib, the ninth 

 day of Zac, to ascertain the initial day of the series. This is found to 

 be 2 Ymix, the nineteenth day of the month Kayab in the year 2 Akbal. 

 It is worthy of notice that here also the count begins with Ymix, and, 

 like the other, 2 Ymix; but a study of the system will make it apparent 

 that this result must necessarily follow unless there is an arbitrary 

 break, or a duplication of one or more days. 



The lowest of the three series, in which the first date on ])la.te 46 is 

 3 Cib, the nineteenth day of Kayab, if traced buck is found also to 

 commence with 2 Ymix. As 3 Cib, the nineteenth day of Kayab, falls 

 in the year 3 Ezanab, counting back 11 months and 16 days reaches 

 2 Ymix, the fourth day of the month Xul of the same year. 



*The 8 Zac in tlie second month line, first columu, plate 46, is an evident mistake 

 on the part of the scribe, as Cib can never be the eighth day of the mouth, according 

 to the calendar followed above. According to the usual system, wliere the years 

 l)egin with Kan, Muluc, Ix, Cauac, it would be the eighth day of the Muiuc years. 

 This looks a little like a slip back to a usual method, where the scribe was trying 

 to follow an unusual system. 



