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SECONDARY SERIES OF QUIRIGUA INSCRIPTIONS 



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Fig. 152. Glyph :«. west side 

 of Stela F. Quirigua. Mauds- 

 lay, part 12. plate XL. 



dates, 12 Caban 5 Kayab (the same as the terminal date of the initial 



series) and 1 Ahau 3 Zip, though the number attached to the day in 



the latter is not the ordinary symbol if intended for 1 (figui-o 152). 



Counting the series given forward from 3 Ahau 3 Mol and 1 .Vliau 



13 Yax brings us to no given date; nor will 



counting back from 12 Caban 5 Kayab reach 



any previous given date. If, however, we 



count back from 1 Ahau 3 Zip, we reach 12 



Caban 5 Kaj'ab, showing that the connection 



is made w'ith the tei-minal date of the initial 



series, as given by Goodman. It would seem 



from this that the insertion of this date, after 



this second numeral series, is for the purpose 



of showing that the count is to be made from 



this date, as we found in our preceding jiaper 



to be true in some instances. 



Our next reference is to the inscription on the east side of Stela F 

 (Maudslay's plate xl, part 12). Here the initial series (plate LXXlii), 

 as heretofore stated, is o4^9-1G-1(M(-(i, l Ahau 3 Zip. Goodman, in 

 his comment (page 125), says: 



The glyphs that immediately follow are so fantastic and unfamiliar that I can 

 make nothing of them until the sign indicating a date to be some score days in 

 the 19th katiin is reached. The date is 5 Ahaii 13 Mol [glyph 34]. As that 

 begins the 1st ahau, the number of score days indicated must be 18. Two vinin- 

 telligible glyphs follow, succeeded by what I believe to be this reading: H cycles, 

 8 katuns, and 19 ahaus. a reckoning embracing 26 calendar rounds and extending 

 360 8-seore days into the 13th cycle, to 1 Ahau 13 Yax. the beginning of a 360- 

 bissextile count and of a katun also. 



It is somewhat difficult to understand these statements, but I will 

 try to explain them, as I desire to oifer one or two criticisms. The 



actual interval between 1 Ahau 3 

 Zip, the terminal date of the initial 

 series, and 5 Ahau 13 Mol (if the 

 first following occurrence of this 

 date be assumed as the one in- 

 tended) will be 18,360 days, or 2 

 katuns, 11 ahaus. This will bring 

 us to 5 Ahau 13 Mol, the first day 

 of ahau number 1 in the 10th katun 

 of cycle 9 (as numbered by Good- 

 man ) — the one now under con.sider- 

 ation. What he means by IS-score 

 days is that the count extends 3G0 



Fig. 153. Part of inscription on the east side 

 of Stela F, Quirigua. Maudslay, part 13, 

 plate XL. 



days into the 19th katun, bringing us to the commencement of the 

 second ahau, which, according to his method of numbering, is 1. 



For some unexplained reason, Goodman makes no mention of the 

 numeral series between the terminal date of the initial series 1 Ahau 



