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A4a as the head for 1, that is, having a forehead ornament composed 

 of more than one part, instead of the head for 8. The month glyph, 

 which follows in B4b, is unfortunately effaced, though its coefficient 

 in B4a is clearly the head for 13. Compare B4a with the uinal coeffi- 

 cient in A3a and with the heads for 13 in figure 52, x-h' . As recorded, 

 therefore, the terminal date reads 8 Ahau 13 ?, thus agreeing in every 

 particular so far as it goes wdth the terminal date reached by calcu- 

 lation, 8 Ahau 13 Pop, In all probability the effaced sign in B4b origi- 

 nally was the month Pop. The whole Initial Series therefore reads 

 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop. 



In figure 69, B, is shown the Initial Series from Stela P at Copan.^ 

 The introducing glyph appears in A1-B2 and is followed by the Initial- 

 series number in A3-B4. The student will readily identify A3, B3, 

 and A4 as 9 cycles, 9 katuns, and 10 tuns, respectively. Note the 

 beard on the head representmg the number 9 in both A3a and B3a. 

 As explained on page 100, this characteristic of the head for 9 is not 

 always present (see fig. 52, g-i). The uinal and kin glyphs have been 

 crowded together into one glyph-block, B4, the uinal appearing in 

 B4a and the kin in B4b. Both their coefficients are 0, which is 

 expressed in each case by the form shown in figure 47. The whole 

 number recorded is 9.9.10.0.0; reducing this to units of the ffi?st order 

 by means of Table XIII, we obtain :- 



A3 = 9X144,000 = 1,296,000 

 B3 = 9X 7,200= 64,800 

 A4 =10X 360= 3,600 

 B4a= Ox 20= 



B4b= OX 1= 



1, 364, 400 



Deducting from this number all of the Calendar Roimds possible, 71 

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

 respectively) to the remainder, the terminal date reached will be 

 2 Ahau 13 Pop. In A5a the day 2 Ahau is very clearly recorded, the 

 day sign being expressed by the proffie variant and the 2 by two 

 dots (incorrectly shown as one dot in the accompanying drawing). ^ 

 Passing over A5b, B5, and A6 we reach in B6a the closing glyph of 

 the Supplementary Series, and in the folloAving glyph, B6b, the 

 month part of this terminal date. The coefficient is 13, and compar- 

 ing the sign itself with the month signs in figure 19, it will be seen that 

 the form in a (Pop) is the month recorded here. The whole Initial 

 Series therefore reads 9.9.10.0.0 2 Ahau 13 Pop. 



• For the full text of this inscription see Maudslay, 1889-1902: i, pis. 88, 89. 



2 While at Copan the writer made a personal examination of this mommient and foimd that Mr. Mauds- 

 lay's drawing is incorrect as regards the coefficient of the day sign. The original has two numerical dots 

 between two crescents, whereas the Maudslay drawing shows one numerical dot between two distinct 

 pairs of crescentS; each pair, however, of diflerent shape. 



