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we can not determine which because we do not know in what relation 

 the whole stands to the preceding row (on the right) or to any of the 

 other numbers. We ma}'^ conjecture that the glyph standing below 

 the 7,200 sign, consisting of the daj'^ Chuen with prefix and suffix and 

 the anterior 1, is meant for the month of 20 days. The Chuen sign 

 would not be wholly inappropriate for this signification, as it begins 

 the second half of a month beginning with Imix and thus, as the mid- 

 dle of it, it represents in a certain sense the whole month. Below the 

 360 sign, however, we see the sun, kin, with a suffix and a prefixed 3. 

 This Avould indicate that kin, in the sense of " day ", ends the whole 

 number, as yet unknoAvn to us, with three units. Such a number be- 

 longs indeed to the most important day of this part of the manuscript, 

 the day XIII 20, for the day 17 (Ahau) always corresponds to a 

 number ending with 0. 



On the same page, Gl, in the same vertical row, the sixth line from 

 the top again forms our 7,200 and 360 signs, the latter forming part 

 of a face and accompanied by an 8. Here again we at least recognize 

 that these tAvo belong together. 



As I have proved the parallelism of the two sections in my essay 

 Zur Entzifferung der Maya Handschriften, II, we may expect to find 

 in the last part of the manuscript (pages 69 to 73) something analo- 

 gous to that which Ave haA^e encountered in this section. Thus on page 

 69 Ave find the same tAvo vertical roAvs of glyphs and in them again, in 

 the fifth line from below, the 7,200 and 360 signs, the former again 

 with 15, the latter again Avith 9; beloAV them, the chuen sign, this time 

 Avitli 4, and the kin sign, this time again Avith 4. We are justified 

 therefore in surmising some large number ending Avith 4, such as the 

 principal day of this section, the day IX 11, really ought to haA^e, if 

 we begin once more at Ahau=0. 



Glancing carelessly farther up the same page we not merely find 

 there our Iavo signs, but Ave also recognize that the upper 16 glyphs 

 draAvn in a blue field correspond exactly to those on page 61, saA'e for 

 slight variations and the substitution for the Moan head of a sign of 

 similar meaning often used in its stead. 



The association of the glyphs for 7,200 and 360 days is not a pecu- 

 liarity of the Dresden codex ; it also extends to the inscriptions on 

 stone, Avhich differ so Avidely from the manuscripts. The inscri})tion 

 on the Cross at Palenque contains the tAvo in close proximity almost a 

 dozen times, the one beside or beloAv the other. 



Where the tAvo signs do not occur in such immediate |)i'oximi(y the 

 matter becomes uncertain from the fact of the almost perfect simi- 

 larity of the 360 sign to that for the month of Pax. I therefore leave 

 the latter quite out of the question. For the 7,200 sign T ivfer to 

 page 24, first column; page 70, third column, third sign from the bot- 



