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we have just seen appears in B4. Tliis further proves that the kin 

 coefficient in A4 is 1. The final confirmation of this ich^ntification 

 will come from the month glyph, which must be 4 Pop if we have 

 correctly identified the day as 12 Imix. If, on the other hand, the 

 day were 11 Abau, the month glyph would be 3 Pop. Passing over 

 A5 B5, A6 B6, Cl Dl, and C2, we reach in D2a the closing glyph 

 of the Supplementary Series, here showing the coefficient 9. Com- 

 pare this form with figure 65. The month .glyph, therefore, should 

 appear in D2b. The coefficient of this glyph is very clearly 4, thus 

 confirming our identification of B4 as 12 Imix. (See Table VII.) 

 And finally, the month glyph itself is Pop. Compare D2b with 

 figure 19, a. The whole Initial Series in plate 9, B, therefore reads 

 9.12.8.14.1 12 Imix 4 Pop. 



In plate 10, is figured the Initial Series from Stela 3 at Tikal.^ 

 The introducing glyph, though somewhat effaced, may still be rec- 

 ognized m Al. The Initial-series number follows in B1-B3. The 

 head-variant period glyphs are too badly weathered to show the 

 determining characteristic in each case, except the uinal head in A3, 

 the mouth curl of which appears clearly, and their identification rests 

 on their relative positions with reference to the introducing glyph. 

 The reliability of this basis of identification for the period glyphs of 

 Initial Series has been thoroughly tested in the texts already pre- 

 sented and is further confirmed in this very inscription by the uinal 

 head. Even if the large mouth curl of the head in A3 had not proved 

 that the uinal was recorded here, we should have assiuned this to be 

 the case because this glyph, A3, is the fourth from the introducing 

 glyph. The presence of the mouth curl therefore confirms the iden- 

 tification based on position. The student will have no difficulty in 

 reading the number recorded in B1-B3 as 9.2.13.0.0. 



Reducing this number by means of Table XIII to units of the first 

 order, we obtain: 



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



A2= 2X 7,200= 14,400 



B2 = 13X 360= 4,680 



A3= OX 20= 



B3= OX 1= 



1, 315, 080 

 Deducting all the Calendar Roimds possible from this number, 69 

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

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

 be 4 Ahau 13 Kayab. It remains to find this date in the text. The 

 glyph in A4, the proper position for the day glyph, is somewhat 

 effaced, though the profile of the human head may yet be traced, 

 thus enabling us to identify this form as the day sign Ahau. Com- 



1 For the full text of this inscription see Maler, 1911: v, No. 1, pi. 15. 



