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In figure 69, A, is shown tlie Initial Series inscribed on tlie rises 

 and treads of the stairway leading to House C in the Palace at 

 Palenque.* The introducing glyph is recorded in Al, and the Initial- 

 series number follows in B1-B3. The student will readily recognize 

 the period glyphs in Bib, A2b, B2b, A3b, and B3b. The head 

 express hig the cycle coefficient in Bla has for its essential element 

 the dots centering around the corner of the mouth. As explained on 

 page 100, this characterizes the head for 9 (see fig. 52, g-l, where vari- 

 ants for the 9 head are figured) . In Bl, therefore, we have recorded 9 



Initial Series showing head- variant numerals and period glyphs: A , House C of 

 Group at Palenque; B, Stela P at Copan. 



) Palace 



cycles, the number almost always found in Initial Series as the cycle 

 coefficient. The essential element of the katun coefficient in A2a is 

 the forehead ornament composed of a single part. This denotes the 

 head for 8 (see p. 100, and fig. 52, a-f; also compare A2a with the heads 

 denoting 18 in the two preceding examples, pi. 12, A, A4, and pi. 12, 

 B, A4, each of which shows the same forehead ornament). The tun 

 coefficient in B2a is exactly like the cycle coefficient just above 

 it in Bla; that is, 9, having the same dotting of the face near the 

 corner of the mouth. The uinal coefficient in A3 a is 13. Com- 

 pare this head numeral with A8, plate 12, B, which also denotes 13, 

 and also with figure 52, x-b\ The essential elements (see p. 101) 



1 For the full text of this inscription, see Maudslay, 1S89-1902: iv, pi. 23. 



