MORLEY] INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 169 



According to step 5 (p. 151), the day reached should follow imme- 

 diately the last period g^yph, which in this case was in A6 ; hence the 

 day should be recorded in A7. This glyph has a coefficient 4, but 

 the glyph does not resemble either of the forms for Ahau shown in 

 B5, plate 6, J., or in B4a, (7 of the same plate. However, by com- 

 paring this glyph with the second variant for the day sign Ahau in 

 figure 16, Ji'-i' , the two forms will be found to be identical, and we 

 may accept A7 as recording the day 4 Ahau. Immediately follow- 

 ing in A8 is the month sign, again out of its usual place as in plate 

 6, O. Comparing it with the month signs in figure 19, it will be found 

 to exactly correspond with the sign for Yax in q-r. The coefficient 

 is 13. Therefore the terminal date recorded, 4 Ahau 13 Yax, agrees 

 with the terminal date reached by calculation, and the whole Initial 

 Series reads 9.15.0.0.0 4 Ahau 13 Yax. This date marks the close 

 not only of a hotun in the Long Count, but of a katun as well. 



In B, plate 7, is figured the Initial Series from Stela A at Copan.^ 

 The introducing glyph appears in Al Bl, and is followed by the 

 Initial-series number in A2-A4. The student will have no difficulty 

 in picking out the clasped hand in A2, the oval in the top of the head 

 in B2, the fleshless lower jaw in A3, the large mouth curl in B3, and 

 the flaring subfix in A4, which are the essential elements of the head 

 variants for the cycle, katun, tun, uinal, and kin, respectively. Com- 

 pare these glyphs with figures 25, d~f, 27, e-h, 29, e-g, 31, d~f, and 

 34, e-g, respectively. The coefficients of these period glyphs are all 

 normal forms and the student will have no difficulty in reading this 

 nimiber as 9.14.19.8.0.2 



Reducing this by means of Table XIII to units of the 1st order, 

 we have ; 



A2= 9X144,000 = 1,296,000 



B2 = 14x 7,200= 100,800 



A3 = 19X 360= 6,840 



B3= 8X 20= 160 



A4= OX 1= - 



1, 403, 800 



Deducting from this all the Calendar Rounds possible, 73 (see Table 

 XVI), and appl3nng rules 1 and 2 (pp. 139 and 140, respectively), to 

 the remainder, the day reached will be 12 Ahau. And applying rule 3 

 (p. 141), the month reached will be 18 Cumhu, giving for the terminal 

 date as reached by calcidation 12 Ahau 18 Cumhu. The day should 

 be recorded in B4, and an examination of this glyph shows that its 

 coefficient is 12, the day coefficient reached by calculation. The 

 glyph itself, however, is unlike the forms for Ahau previously encoun- 

 tered in plate 6, ^, B5 and C, B4b, and in plate 7, ^1, A7. Turning 



1 The full text of this inscription is given in Maudslay, 18S9-1902: i, pis. 27-30. 



2 Note the decoration on the numerical bar. 



