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3 Zip and 5 Ahan lo Mol. Tliis, unless I am wront; in my interpreta- 

 tion, is found in glyphs I'l, 22, and 23 (figure 153), as numbered by 

 Maudslaj'. The prefixed numerals with one exception (that prefixed 

 to the ahau) are of the ordinarj' type. However, as the exception, 

 which is a face numeral, shows the hand across the lower jaw we must 

 assume, according to what has been shown, that it denotes full count 

 or naught (0). With this assumption, the series appear to be 3 days, 

 11 chuens, ahaus, and 19 katuns, or -19-0-11-3, the number of 

 chuens being uncertain; but this series will not connect any pre- 

 ceding with any following date. Could this have been Goodman's 

 reason for omitting notice of the series? 



It is noticeable also that the .symbol he interprets 5 in the date 

 5 Ahau 13 Mol (glyph 24, figure 153) is precisely the same as the one 

 he interprets 1 in the date 1 Ahau 3 Zip in the inscription on the 

 west side of this stela (glyph 33). In the next ijlace it is exceedingly 

 doubtful, judging from an inspection of the characters, whether his 

 supposed series "3 cycles, 8 katuns, and 19 ahaus" can be found in 

 the space indicated — that is between ghphs 24 and 29. There is not 

 in it, with one exception, a single glyph that in any way I'esembles 

 any of the forms of time periods he has noticed. The exception is 

 the first iiart of glyph 20, which is like the ordinaiy form of tlie chuen 

 symbol; but the character over it is like that over Ahau in the date 

 he gives as 5 Ahau 13 Mol, elsewhere interpreted as 1. There is a 

 numeral, 13, of the ordinary' form over the first part of gl.yph 28, but 

 there is no 13 in the .series he gives. We take this .series, there- 

 fore, to be purely imaginary, made up from his tables. According to 

 Maudslay's drawing, the month symbol in the following date — 1 Ahau 

 13 Yax — is reallj' the sym)>ol for Yaxkin. But an examination of the 

 photograph does not bear out the drawing, the glyph lieing as much 

 like the Yax as the Yaxkin symbol. 



According to his statement, this imagined series extends "3G0 8-score 

 days into the 13th cycle to 1 Ahau 13 Yax." He must, of course, 

 allude to the 13th cycle of his 55th great cycle; with this understand- 

 ing liis count is correct, if he had anything to base it on. 



We turn next to the inscription on the west side of Stela E, the 

 drawing of which is shown in Maudslay's plate XXXI, part 12. The 

 terminal date of this initial series (see plate Lxxii), the numl)er of 

 ahaus being corrected from 12 to 13, as already noticed, is 12 C'aban 5 

 Kayab. The first numeral series which follows is in glyphs 14 and 15 

 (figure 154n), and is 6-13-3 (reversed), equal to 2,423 days. The date 

 wliich follows (glyph 10) is 4 Ahau 13 Yax. The count is correct, as 

 2,423 days fi'om 12 Caban 5 Kayab, year 13 Ben, bring us to 4 Ahau 13 

 Yax, year 7 Lamat. The next series is found in glyph 18 and, accord- 

 ing to the method of reading the chuens and daj's so far followed — 

 that is, counting the nnnil)er at the left side of the chuen symbol as 

 days and that above it as chuen.s — is, in reverse order, 1-0-14, but 



