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interpretation full t-ouiit (or properly 0) of the face mniieral with the 

 hand over tlie lower jaw. It may be mentioned liere tliat Maudslay 

 agrees with me in designating these so-called "full counts" as given 

 bj' Goodman as " no count," or, in other words, naught fsee his text, 

 part 11, page fl). 



Referring to inscriptions in other localities, the following facts are 

 noted in reference to the value of the different face numerals : the initial 

 series of the Foliated Cross at Palenque (see figure 2, jirevious paper) 

 aijpears to l)e as follows: 54-1-18-5-4—0 to 1 Ahau 13 ]Mac. Follow- 

 ing this date, after some intervening glyphs, is the brief numeral 

 series 14 chuens 19 days, immediately after which comes the date 

 1 Cauac 7 Yax. 



Counting back 14 chuens 10 days from the latter date, we reach 1 

 Ahau 13 Mac, the terminal date of the initial series. This gives the 

 value 1 to the face glypli attached to the Ahau symbol. This face 

 glyph (figure 124 5) agrees in its features, excepting the ear pendant, 

 with the face glyph attached to the cycle symbol (figure 124 o), show- 

 ing it to be 1, which agrees with the above interpretation. As the 

 face glyph attached to the ahau period symbol agrees with the symbol 

 Ave have heretofore interpreted 5 (see figure 128 o); and the numijer 

 attached to the month symbol is of the ordinary form; and that 

 attached to the day glyph has the hand across the lower jaw, we have 

 the following numbers of the series: ?-l-?-5-?-0, 1 Ahau 13 Mac. 



These items are not sufficient to giA^e the remaining numbei-s of the 

 series; but assuming that it falls in the 54th great cycle, as is most 

 probable, the other numbers will lie as given above. As the face 

 character attached to the chuen symbol, interpreted 4 (figure 127/>), 

 presents some features of the one interpreted 4 on the west side of 

 Stela F at Quirigua (left part of glyph 4, plate lxxi), and this will 

 suffice to determine the other numbers, we are perhaps justified in 

 concluding that the series is given correctly. That the face character 

 attached to the katun sj^mbol (figure 155 f), which is interpreted 18, is 

 some number greater than 10 is shown by the skeleton jaw. 



Turning to the inscription of the Temple of the Sun, as sliown in 

 Maudslay's plate Lxxxix, part 10 (see plate XLI, Xineteenth Annual 

 Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900), where the num- 

 bers of the initial series are all face characters except those designat- 

 ing the day of the montli in the terminal date, we will try to determine 

 them from the data so far obtained. As those attached to the cj^cle 

 (figure 124c), katun (figure 141c), and ahau (figui-e 128 6) symbols 

 are evidently the same as those in the inscription of the Foliated 

 Cross, and the day of the terminal ilate is ? Cimi 19 Ceh, we have the 

 following items of the series: y-1-18-5-?-?, ? Cimi 19 Ceh. 



The.se data are not sufficient to determine the remaining numbers. 

 One other item is necessary for this purpose. Assuming the great 

 cycle to be that commencing with the day 4 Ahau 8 Cundiu, the 



