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INITIAL SERIES OF QUIKIGUA INSCRIPTIONS 



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attached tu tlie symbol fur clays iu the upper pair of the group to the 

 right, denotes, according to Goodman, full count or 20 when days and 

 18 wlien ehuens (see figure 143). However, 

 I consider it, as heretofore stated, a symbol 

 for naught. Immediately below the latter 

 is the day (probal)l.y Ahau) of the terminal 

 date, with the face symbol for 5, ali'eady 

 determined, prefixed (figure 128 o)- The 

 first glyph of the lower pair of the group to 

 the right has the ordinary character for 3 

 pi'efixed. This we take to be the month 

 sj-mbol, though it is unusual and indeter- 

 minable by inspection. The series, there- 

 fore, so far as made out, is as follows: '• 

 54?-9-?-l 5-0-0, 5 Ahau 3 (month). I 



It is evident that the 5 Ahau of this series ; 

 must be the beginning day of an ahau, as 

 there are neither ehuens or daj's, and hence 

 it should be found in Goodman's "Archaic 

 Chronological Calendar." Turning to this 

 publication, we find that 5 Ahau 3 (month) 

 can occur as the beginning of the loth ahau 

 in th(» 9th cycle in the following places only — 

 53d great cycle, 9tli cj'cle, 17th katun; 51th 

 great cj'cle, 9th cycle, Itli and 17tli katuns. j 

 In the first it falls in the month Pop, in the < 

 second in Yaxkin, and in the third in Muan. 

 As the month symbol, so far as it remains, 

 does not admit of interpretation as the first , 

 or second of these, we conclude that it must i 

 stand for the third if the date is within the I 

 range of Goodman's calendar. This gives as ; 

 the series 54-9-17-15-0-0, 5 Ahau 3 Muan, \ 

 which works out correctly by calculation. ] 



The "full count" or "naught" symbols ] 

 require some discrimination in our attem^jts | 

 to interpret them. In a series given by ' 

 Goodman, as 54-9-17-15-18-20, or 54-1.3- 

 20-20-18-20, 18 and 20, being so-called "full 

 counts," should in every instance be counted 

 as naught, and the cipher (0) should be in- 

 troduced in their place; and this is true in 

 every case where the .symbols are used to 

 represent prefixed numbers, except in one 

 place. Where they are used to denote the day of the month, as 5 Eb 

 20 Zotz, the}- denote 20, but there are special characters used for this 



