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thc day rocordod \vith tlio day determined by calculations based on 

 the assumption that the kin and uinal coefficients are both 0, of itself 

 tends to establish the accuracy of these assumptions. Passing over 

 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, we reach in 15 the closing glyph of the 

 Supplementary Series, and in 16 probably the month glyph. This 

 form, although badly eroded, presents no features either in the outline 

 of its coefficient or in the sign itself which would prevent it repre- 

 senting the month part 13 Tzec. The coefficient is just mde enough 

 for three vertical divisions (2 bars and 3 dots), and the month glyph 

 itself is divided into two parts, a superfix comprising about one-third 

 of the glyph and the main element the remaining two-thirds. Com- 

 pare this form with the sign for Tzec 'in figure 19, g, h. Although 



_. . this text is too much weathered to permit ab- 



^:i/^y..,. solute certainty with reference to the reading of 

 this Initial Series, the writer nevertheless be- 

 lieves that in all probability it records the date 

 given above, namely, 9.16.0.0.0 2 Ahau 13 Tzec. 

 If this is so. Stela H is the earliest hotun-marker 

 a h i^t Quirigua.i 



Fig. 72. The tun, iiinai, and The studcut will liavc noticcd from the fore- 

 kin coefficients on Stela II, going tcxts, and it lias also been stated several 



Quirigua: a, Tun coefficient; ,• xi j ji i ir - j • ^ i • 



b, suggested restoration of timcs, that the cycle cocfhcient IS almost invari- 

 the uinal and kin coefficients ablv 9. Indeed, the only two cxceptioiis to this 



like the tun coefficient. i * • - 1 • • -• i ^ n i ji 



rule m the mscnptions already figured are the 

 Initial Series from the Temples of the FoUated Cross and the Sun at 

 Palenque (pi, 12, ^ and B, respectively), in which the cycle coeffi- 

 cient in each case was 1. As explained on page 179, footnote 1, these 

 two Initial Series refer probably to mythological events, and the dates 

 which they record were not contemporaneous with the erection of the 

 temples on whose walls they are inscribed; and, finally, Cycle 9 

 was the first historic period of the Maya civilization, the epoch 

 wliich witnessed the rise and fall of all the southern cities. 



As explained on page 179, footnote 2, however, there are one or two 

 Initial Series wliich can hardly be considered as referring to mytho- 

 logical events, even though the dates which they record fall in a cycle 

 earlier than Cycle 9. It was stated, further, in the same place that 

 these two Initial Series were not found inscribed on large monuments 

 but on sinall(>r antiquities, one of thorn being a small nephrite figure 

 wliich has been designated the Tuxtla Statuette, and the other a 

 nephrite plate, designated the Leyden Plate; and, finally, that the 

 dates recorded on these two antiquities probably designated contem- 

 poraneous events in the historic period of the Maya civilization. 



1 In 1913 Mr. M. D. Landry, superintendent of the Quirigua district, Guatemala division of the United 

 Fruit Co., found a st ill earlier monument about half a mile west of the main group. This has been named 

 gtela S. It records the hotun ending prior to the one on Stela H, i. e., 9.15.15.0.0 9 Ahau 18 Xul. 



