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of the terminal date, 13 Ceh. The bar and dot numeral 13 appears 

 very clearly above the month sign, which, though partially effaced, 

 yet bears sufficient resemblance to the sign for Ceh in figure 19, 

 u, V, to enable us to identify it as such. 



Our complete Initial Series, therefore, reads: 9.18.5.0.0 4 Ahau 13 

 Ceh, and smce the terminal date recorded in B5, Clb agrees wath the 

 terminal date determined by calculation, we may conclude that this 

 text is without error and, furthermore, that it records a date, 4 Ahau 

 13 Ceh, which was distant 9.18.5.0.0 from the starting point of Maya 

 chronology. The writer interprets this text as signifying that 

 9.18.5.0.0 4 Ahau 13 Ceh was the date on which Zoomorph P at Qui- 

 rigua was formally consecrated or dedicated as a time-marker, or in 

 other words, that Zoomorph P was the monument set up to mark the 

 hotun, or 5-tun period, which came to a close on the date 9.18.5.0.0 4 

 Ahau 13 Ceh of Maya chronology. ^ 



In plate 6, B, is figured a drawing of the Initial Series on Stela 22 at 

 Naranjo.- The text opens m Al with the Initial-series introducing 

 glyph, which is followed in B1-B3 by the Initial-series number 

 9.12.15.13.7. The five period glyphs are all expressed by their cor- 

 responding normal forms, and the student will have no difficulty in 

 identifymg them and reading the number, as above recorded. 



By means of Table XIII this number may be reduced to units of 

 the 1st order, in wdiich form it may be more conveniently used. This 

 reduction, which forms the first step in the process of solving Maya 

 numbers (see step 1, p. 134), follows: 



Bl= 9X144,000 = 1,296,000 



A2 = 12 X 7, 200 = 86, 400 



B2 = 15X 360= 5,400 



A3 = 13X 20= 260 



B3= 7X 1= 7 



1, 388, 067 

 And 1,388,067 ^vill be the number used in the following calculations. 



The next step is to find the starting point from which 1,388,067 is 

 counted (see step 2, p. 135). Since this number is an Initial Series, in 

 all probability its starting point will be the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu ; at 

 least it is perfectly safe to proceed on that assumption. 



The next step is to find the direction of the count (see step 3, p. 136) ; 

 since our number is an Initial Series, the count can only be forward 

 (see rule 2, p. 137).' 



> The reasons which have led the writer to this conclusion are given at some length on pp. 33-36. 



2 For the full text of this inscription see Maler, 1908 b: pi. 36. 



3 Since nothing but Initial-series texts will be presented in Ihe plates and flgures immediately following, 

 a fact which the student will readily detect by the presence of the introducing glyph at the head of each 

 text, it is unnecessary to repeat for each new text step 2 (p. 135) and step 3 (p. 136), which explain how to 

 determine the starting point of the count and the direction of the count, respectively; and the student 

 may assume that the starling point of the several Initial Series hereinafter figured will always be the date 

 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu and that the direction of the count will always be forward. 



