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Passing over the Initial Series whose cycle coefficient is 9, many of 

 wliich have already been described, we come next to the consideration 

 of Initial Series whose cycle coefficient is 10, a very limited number 

 indeed. As explained in Chapter I, the southern cities did not long 

 survive the opening of Cycle 10, and since Initial-series dating did 

 not prevail extensively in the later cities of the north, Initial Series 

 showing 10 cycles are very unusual. 



In figure 75, B, is shown the Initial Series from the Temple of the 

 Initial Series at Chichen Itza, the great metropolis of northern Yucatan. 

 This inscription is not found on a stela but on the under side of a lintel 

 over a doorway leading into a small and comparatively insignificant 

 temple. The introducing glyph appears m A1-B2 and is followed by 

 the Initial-series number in A3-A5. The student will have little 

 difficulty m deciphermg all of the coefficients except that belonging 

 to the kin m A5, which is a head-variant numeral, and the whole 

 number will be fomid to read 10.2.9.1.?. The coefficient of the day 

 of the terminal date is very clearly 9 (see B5) and the month part, 

 7 Zac (see A6). We may now read this Initial Series as 10.2.9.1. ? 9? 

 7 Zac ; in other words, the km coefficient and the day sign are stUl 

 mdeterminate. First substituting as the missing value of the kin 

 coefficient, the terminal date reached will be 10.2.9.1.0 13 Ahau 18 

 Yax. But accordmg to Table XV, position 18 Yax is just 9 days 

 earlier than position 7 Zac, the month part recorded in A6. Conse- 

 quently, in order to reach 7 Zac from 10.2.9.1.0 13 Ahau 18 Yax, 9 

 more days are necessary. Counting these forward from 10.2.9.1.0 

 13 Ahau 18 Yax, the date reached will be 10.2.9.1.9 9 Muluc 7 Zac, 

 wliich is the date recorded on tliis lintel. Compare the day sign with 

 figure 16, m, n, and the month sign "with figure 19, s, t. 



Two other Initial Series whose cycle coefficient is 10 yet remain to 

 be considered, namely, Stelse 1 and 2 at Quen Santo. ^ The first of 

 these is shown m figure 76, A, but unfortunately only a fragment of 

 this monument has been recovered. In A1-B2 appears a perfectly 

 regular form of the introducing glyph (see fig. 24), and this is followed 

 in A3-B4 by the Initial-series number itself, with the exception of 

 the kin, the glyph representing wliich has been broken off. The 

 student will readily identify A3 as 10 cycles, noting the clasped hand 

 on the head-variant period glyph, and B3 as 2 katuns. The glyph 

 in A4 has very clearly the coefficient 5, and even though it does not 

 seem to have the flcsliless lower jaw of the tun head, from its position 

 alone — after the unmistakable katun sign in B3 — we are perfectly 

 justified in assuming that 5 tuns are recorded here. Both the coeffi- 

 cient and the glyph in B4 are unfamiliar. However, as the former 



1 For the full text of these inscriptions, see Seler, 1902-1908: ii, 253, and 1901 c: i, 23, flg. 7. During his 

 last visit to the Maya territory the writer discovered that Stela 11 at Tikal has a Cycle-lO Initial Series, 

 namely, 10.2.0.0.0. 3 Ahau 3 Ceh. 



