forstbmann] the glyphs 439 



'' Ziir Maya-Chronologie " in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, that I 

 had found a sign for the period of 18,980 (52X365) days. Are we 

 then to regard this sign as twice that period; that is, 37,960 days, 

 which we see is the objective point of the series on our page? 



14 to 18. As the preceding characters led us to the Venus-sun period 

 and to pages 46 to 50, connected with it, so Avitli tliese five glyphs 

 we come to the Mercury-moon period and pages 51 to 58, devoted 

 to it, and, therefore, also to the large number in the third column of 

 our page. Let us compare with our signs the ten glyphs found on the 

 lower half of page 58, above the picture, which I will designate 



a b 

 c d 

 e f 

 g h 

 i k 



(By the way, I would like to consider a as the glyph of Mercury, 

 e and f as signs for the solar and lunar year of 364 days; c and d 

 might possibly signify 13X28. I will now try to explain characters 

 b, g, h, i, k.) 



AVe here reach the following results : 



14^c, which is, as I have shown, the sign for 20 years of 360 days; 

 that is, for 7,200 days. 



15=g, a hand holding a square which is divided by a cross into 

 four parts. I am inclined to conjecture that this is the period of 

 20 days. Before the sign 15 is the numeral 1, which occurs on page 

 58 before g, but with a small cross below it, which perhaps merely 

 indicates that the 1 does not belong here, but with g, where there was 

 no room for it. I therefore read the whole 1-|-20=21. 



16^h, the sign of the fourteenth 20-day period (Kankin), above 

 it is the familiar Ben-Ik sign, which I take to be the lunar month 

 of 29, or, more precisely,' 29.5 days (reckoned at only 28 in the 

 calendar). Before it is a prefix which is more distinct on page 

 58, consisting of two lines and two small circles, which I am inclined 

 to consider the character for duplication, 2X29.5=59. Yet I con- 

 fess that I nm still doubtful about this, especially as to the meaning 

 of the character kankin. Was it chosen because 14 is the half of 28? 



17==b. Although 17 is almost destroyed, I think there is no doubt 

 jibout this equation, judging from the fragments which remain. 

 Hence we have here 13X360=4,680 days, a third of the remarkable 

 period of 14,040 days. 



We have therefore, 



14= 7. 200 days 

 15 =r 21 days 

 16:= 59 days 

 17 3= 4. G80 days 



11,900 days 



