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where, may have been chosen to represent the 20-day period because 

 of the similarity of its name, uo, to the name of tliis period, u, or 

 uinal. The head of the anthropomorphic figure which clasps the 

 frog's foreleg is the head variant for 0. Note the clasped hand across 

 the lower part of the face, and compare this form with figure 53, 

 s-w. The whole glyph, therefore, stands for uinals. 



In B3 are recorded the kin and its coefficient. The period glyph 

 here is represented by an anthropomorphic figure with a grotesque 

 head. Its identity, as representing the kins of this number, is better 

 established from its position in the number than from its appearance, 

 which is somewhat irregular. The kin coefficient is just like the uiual 

 coefficient — an anthropomorphic figure the head of which has the 

 clasped hand as its determining characteristic. Therefore B3 records 

 kins. 



The whole number expressed by B1-B3 is 9.15.5.0.0; reducing this 

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



1, 405, 800 

 Deducting from this number all the Calendar Roimds possible, 74 

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

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

 be 10 Ahau 8 Chen. 



The day part of tliis terminal date is recorded in A4. The day sign 

 Ahau is represented as an anthropomorphic figure, crouching within 

 the customary day-sign cartouche. The head of tliis figure is the 

 familiar profile variant for the day sign Ahau, seen in figure 16, Ti' , 

 %'. This cartouche is clasped by the left arm of another anthropo- 

 morphic figure, the day coefficient, the head of wliich is the skull, 

 denoting the numeral 10. Note the fleshless lower jaw of this head 

 and compare it with the same element in figure 52, m-r. This glyph 

 A4 records, therefore, the day reached by the Initial Series, 10 Ahau. 



The position of the month glyph in this text is most unusual. 

 Passing over B4, the first glyph of the Supplementary Series, the 

 month glyph follows it immediately in A5. The month coefficient 

 appears again as an anthropomorphic figure, the head of wliich has 

 for its determining characteristic the forehead ornament composed 

 of one part, denoting the numeral 8. Compare tliis head \dtli the 

 heads for 8, in figure 52, a-f. The month sign itself appears as a large 

 grotesque head, the details of which present the essential elements 

 of the month here recorded — Chen. Compare with figure 19, o, p. 



