FoKSTEMANN.] INSCRIPTION ON THE CEOSS OF PALENQUE 555 



colninns E and F. And these three days arc poctdiar in that they all 

 three (E 1, E 9, and F 12) proceed from the same day, IX 19. How 

 may this be accounted for ? 



I now add an observation in which Cyrus Thomas has led the way. 

 In nine passages of the inscription we find two unknown glyphs, the 

 same ones each time in immediate succession : F 7 E 8, S and T 1, T 7 

 S 8, T 15 S K), U and V (>, V 11 U 12, U and V 10, W and X 8, and W 

 and X 17. Six times this pair of signs occurs between the interval 

 and the following date; in U 6 V (> it occurs between two dates, in 

 V 11 U 12 between the date and the following interval, in W X 17 at 

 the end of the whole inscription after an interval. The character- 

 istic of the first sign is a hand pointing forward, that of the second, 

 a kin ('' sun ", " day ") ; accordingly, they may perhaps mean nothing 

 more than " counting of the days ". The sense must be very general, 

 otherwise it would not occur in nine jjlaces. 



