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the day glyph. Compare the form in A3a with the month signs in 

 figure 19 and it will be found to be the sign for Zotz (see fig. 19, e-f). 

 The coefiicient is 8 and the whole glyph represents the month part 

 8 Zotz, the same as determined by calculation. This whole Initial 

 Series reads 9.16.5.0.0 8 Aliau 8 Zotz. 



The Maya texts presented up to this point have all been drawings 

 of originals, which are somewhat easier to make out than either 

 photographs of the originals or the originals themselves. However, 

 in order to familiarize the student with photographic reproductions 

 of Maya texts a few will be inserted here illustrating the use of bar 

 and dot numerals with both normal-form and head-variant period 

 glyphs, with which the student should be perfectly familiar by this 

 time. 



In plate 9, A, is figured.a photograph of the Initial Series on the front 

 of Stela 11 at Yaxchilan.^ The introducing glyph appears in Al Bl ; 9 

 cycles in A2; 16 katuns in B2, 1 tun in A8, uinals in B3, and kins in 

 B4. The student will note the clasped hand in the cycle head, the oval 

 in the top of the katun head, the large mouth curl in the uinal head, 

 and the flaring postfix in the kin head. The tun is expressed by its 

 normal form. The number here recorded is 9.16.1.0.0, and reducing 

 this to imits of the first order by means of Table XIII, we have: 



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

 B2 = 16X 7,200= 115,200 

 A3= IX 360= 360 



B3= OX 20= 



A4= OX 1= 



1,411,560 



Deducting from this number all the Calendar Rounds possible, 74 

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

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

 resulting calculations will be 11 Ahau 8 Tzec. The day part of this 

 date is very clearly recorded in B4 immediately after the last period 

 glyph, and the student will readily recognize the day 11 Ahau in this 

 form, Follownng along the glyphs of the Supplementary Series in 

 Cl Dl, C2 D2, the closing glyph is reached in C3b. It is very clear 

 and has a coefficient of 9. The glyph following (D3) should record 

 the month sign. A comparison of this form with the several month 

 signs in figure 19 shows that Tzec is the month here recorded. Com- 

 pare D3 with figure 19, g-h. The month coefiicient is 8. The ter- 

 minal date, therefore, recorded in B4 and D3 (11 Ahau 8 Tzec) agrees 

 wdth the terminal date determined by calculation, and this whole text 

 reads 9.16.1.0.0 11 Ahau 8 Tzec. The meaning of the element 



" For the full text of this inscription see Maler, 1903: n, No. 2, pis. 74, 75. 



