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A4 B4, 18 (8 + 10) katiins. The tun coefficient in A5 has for its 

 determining characteristic the tun headdress, which, as explained on 

 page 99, is the essential element of the head for 5 (see fig. 51, n-s). 

 Therefore A5 represents 5, and A5 B5, 5 tuns. The uinal coefficient 

 in A6 has for its essential elements the large bulging eye, square irid, 

 and snaglike front tooth. As stated on page 98, these characterize 

 the head for 4, examples of which are given in figure 51, j-m. Con- 

 sequently, A6 B6 records 4 uinals. The kin coefficient in A7 is quite 

 clearly 0. The student will readily recognize the clasped hand, which 

 is the determining characteristic of the head (see p. 101 and fig. 53, 

 s-w). The number recorded in A3-B7 is, therefore, 1.18.5.4.0. 

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

 XIII, we obtain: 



A3B3 = 1 X 144, 000 = 144, 000 



A4B4 = 18X 7,200 = 129.600 



A5B5= 5X 360= 1,800 



A6B6= 4x 20= 80 



A7B7= OX 1= 



275,480 

 Deducting from this number all the Calendar Rounds possible, 14 

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

 141, respectively), the terminal date reached will be 1 Ahau 13 Mac. 

 Of this date, the day part, 1 Ahau, is recorded very clearly in A8 B8. 

 Compare the head in A8 with the head in A3, which, we have seen, 

 stood for 1 and also with figure 51, a-e, and the head in B8 with 

 figure 16, Ti', i' ; the profile head for the day sign Ahau. This text is 

 irregular in that the month glyph follows immediately the day glyph, 

 i. e., in A9. The glyph in A9 has a coefficient 13, which agrees with the 

 month coefficient determined by calculation, and a comparison of B9 

 with the forms for the months in figure 19 shows that the month 

 Mac (fig. 19, w, x) is here recorded. The whole Initial Series there- 

 fore reads 1.18.5.4.0 1 Ahau 13 Mac. 



In plate 12, B, is figured the Initial Series on the tablet from the 

 Temple of the Sun at Palenque.^ The introducing glyph appears in 

 AI-B2 and is followed by the Initial-serie^ number in A3-B7. The 

 student will have no difficulty in identifying the period glyphs in 

 B3, B4, B5, B6, and B7; and the cycle, katun, and tun coefficients 

 in A3, A4, and A5, respectively, will be found to be exactly like the 

 corresponding coefficients in the preceding Initial Series (pi. 12, A, 

 A3, A4, A5), which, as we have seen, record the numbers 1, 18, and 

 5, respectively. The uinal coefficient in A6, however, presents a 

 new form. Here the determining characteristic is the banded head- 

 dress, or fillet, which distinguishes the head for 3, as explained on 

 page 98 (see fig. 51 h, i). We have then in A6 B6 record of 3 



1 For the full text of this inscription see Maudslay, 1889-1902; iv, pis. 87-89. 



