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riglilly uiulersiiind him, contends that this .series belongs to, or is con- 

 nected witli, the series in the serpent figures, and is to show that the 

 count is carried back to 4 Aliau 8 Cunihu as the initial date, though 

 he has failed to make connection between the dates by the series in 

 the text. 



As the initial and terminal dates (4 Ahau 8 Cumliu and 9 Kan 3 2 

 Kayab) are the sanu> on l)oth plates, and the number of the katuns 

 and ahaus the same in l)oth, it is certain there is a mistake in one or 

 the other in regard to the number of chuens and days — one being 4 

 cliuens, 4 days, and the other 1 chuen, :J days — as the terminal date 

 can not occur twice in the lapse of time between one and the other, 

 that is, in 01 days. However, neither .series will connect the two dates. 

 The series on plate LXIX when reduced to days is as follows: 



Days 



15katnns__. ... 108,000 



Oahaus.- 3,240 



4chiiei)s_ 80 



4 days.-- --- 4 



Total 111,324 



Subtract .t calendar n innds . . _ . . 94, 900 



Remainder _ 10,424 



Counting this num))er of days forward from 4 Ahau 8 C'umhu, year 

 8 Ben, we reach '.i Kan 7 Cumliu, year 1 Ezanab — a date 37 years 

 later than the proper one; noi- will counting backward give the 

 proper result. It is apparent from the problem itself that the 

 numeral series must be nuiterially clumged in order to connect these 

 dates, if tliis was the object of the aboriginal artist. That the two 

 dates are too prominent for either to he changed will be admitted. 

 As 4 Ahau 8 Cundiu falls in the year 8 Ben, and 9 Kan 1'2 Kayab in 

 the year 3 Ben, the lapse of time from the former to the latter, count- 

 ing forward (the necessary direction on Seler's assumption) is 2,904 

 days (plus any number of calendar rouiuls); while the number of 

 days over ;ind above the calendar rotmds in (jue of the series (plate 

 LXix) is 10,424 days, and in the other (plate LXi) is 16,203 days. The 

 difference between 10,203 and 2,904 is 13,459. Therefore, correcting 

 the series, as the dates can not be changed, involves dropping out 

 13,459 days, oi' nearly 37 years. It is impossible to make this cor- 

 rection l)y any change in the number of chuens and days, and as 

 the katuns and ahaus are the same on both plates, it is presum- 

 able that (hey are as they were intended to be. Therefore, while the 

 jjositions of the dates in the text in relation to the numeral series 

 would seem to indiceite that they were intended to be connected by 

 it, no justifiable correction or I'easonable manipulation of the series 

 appears to liear out this theory. It would seem from these facts that 

 the data do not sustain ISeler's assumption. 



