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no bar and dot coefficient. These several points indicate that the 

 day sign is not the glyph in B5, also that the day sign is, therefore, 

 out of its regular position. The next glyph in the text, A6, instead 

 of being one of the Supplementary Series is the day glyph 6 Ahau, 

 which should have been recorded in B5. The student will readily 

 make the same identification after comparing A6 with figure 16, e'-g' . 

 A glance at the remainder of the text will show that no Supplementary 

 Series is recorded, and consequently that the month glyph wdll be 

 found immediately following the day glyph in B6. The form in B6 

 has a coefficient 13, one of the four (3, 8, 13, 18) which the month 

 must have, since the day sign is Ahau (see Table VII). A com.parison 

 of the form in B6 with the month signs in figure 19 shows that the 

 month Yaxkin in Z: or Z is the form here recorded; therefore the ter- 

 minal date recorded agrees with the terminal date reached by calcu- 

 lation, and the text reads 9.1.0.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Yaxkin.^ 



In figure 68, B, is shown the Initial Series on Stela M at Copan.^ 

 The introducmg glyph appears in Al and the Initial-series niuuber 

 in Bla-B2a. The student will note the use of both normal-form and 

 head-variant period glyphs in this text, the cycle, tun, and uinal in 

 Bla, A2a, and A2b, respectively, being expressed by the latter, and 

 the katun and kin in Bib and B2a, respectively, by the former. The 

 number recorded is 9.16.5.0.0, and this reduces to units of the first 

 order, as follows (sec Table XIII) : 



Bla= 9X144,000 = 1,296,000 

 Blb = 16x 7,200= 115,200 

 A2a= 5X 360= 1,800 



A2b= OX 20= 



B2a= Ox 1= 



1,413,000 



Deducting from this number all the Calendar Rounds possible, 74 

 (see Table XVI), and applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 141, 

 respectively) to the remainder, the terminal date reached by the 

 resulting calculations will be 8 Ahau 8 Zotz. Turning to our text, the 

 student will have no difficulty in recognizing in B2b the day 8 Ahau. 

 The month glyph in this inscription irregularly follows immediately 



1 Although this date is considerably older than that on Stela 9 at Copan, its several glyphs present none 

 of the marks of antiquity noted in connection with the preeedins; example (pi. 8, B). For example, the ends 

 of the bars denoting 5 are not square but round, and tlie head-variant period glyphs do not show the 

 same elaborate and ornate treatment as in the Copan text. This apparent contradiction permits of an 

 easy explanation. Although the Initial Series on the west side of Stela C at Quirigua undoubtedly refers 

 to an earlier date than the Initial Series on the Copan monument, it does not follow that the (^uiiigua 

 monument is the older of the two. This is true because on the other side of this same stela at (Quirigua 

 is recorded another date, 9. 17. .5. 0.0 6 Ahau 13 Kayab, more than three hundred years later than the Initial 

 Series 9.1.0.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Yaxkin on the west side, and this later date is doubtle.ss the one which referred 

 to present time when this monument was erected. Therefore the Initial Series 9.1.0.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Yaxkin 

 does not represent the period which Stela C was erected to mark, but some far earlier date in Maya 

 history. 



2 For the full text of this inscription see Maudslay, 1889-1902: I, pi. 74. 



