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selected, if for no other reason than that another Initial Series has 

 been found which proceeds from this same date, while no other Initial 

 Series Imown is counted from either 7 Ahau 3 Mol or 3 Ahau 18 Mac. 

 As we have seen in discussing the preceding text, from the east side 

 of Stela C at Quirigua (fig. 77, A), the Initial Series there recorded 

 was counted from the same starting point, 4 Ahau 8 Zotz, as the Initial 

 Series from the Temple of the Cross at Palenque, if we read the latter 

 as 12.19.13.4.0. Tliis coincidence, the writer believes, is sufficient to 

 warrant the identification of the head in A3 (fig. 77, B) as the head 

 numeral 12 and the acceptance of tliis Initial Series as proceeding 

 from the same starting pomt as the Quirigua text just described, 

 namely, the date 4 Ahau 8 Zotz. With these two examples the dis- 

 cussion of Initial-series texts will be closed. 



Texts Recording Initial Series and Secondary Series 



It has been explained (see pp. 74-76) that in addition to Initial- 

 series dating the Maya had another method of expressing their 

 dates, known as Secondary Series, which was used when more than 

 one date had to be recorded on the same monument. It was stated, 

 further, that the accuracy of Secondary-series dating depended solely 

 on the question whether or not the Secondary Series was referred to 

 some date whose position in the Long Count was fixed either by the 

 record of its Initial Series or in some other way. The next class of texts 

 to be presented will be those showing the use of Secondary Series in 

 connection with an Initial Series, by means of which the Initial-series 

 values of the Secondary-series dates, that is, their proper positions 

 in the Long Count, may be worked out even though the}^ are not 

 recorded in the text. 



The first example presented will be the inscription on Lintel 21 at 

 Yaxcliilan, which is figured in plate 16.^ As usual, when an Initial 

 Series is recorded, the introducing glyph opens the text and this sign 

 appears in Al, being followed by the Initial-series number itself in 

 B1-B3. Tliis the student will readily decipher as 9.0.19.2.4, record- 

 ing apparently a very early date in Maya history, within 20 years of 

 9.0.0.0.0 8 Ahau 13 Ceh, the date arbitrarily fixed by the writer as 

 the opening of the first great period. 



Reducing this number by means of Table XIII to units of the first 

 order ^ and deducting all the Calendar Rounds possible, 68 (see Table 

 XVI), and applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 141, respec- 

 tively) to the remainder, the terminal date reached will be 2 Kan 2 

 Yax. This date the student will find recorded in A4 and A7a, glyph 

 B6b being the month-sign ''indicator," or the closing glyph of the 



1 For the full text of this inscription see Maler, 1903: n, No. 2, pi. .56. 



2 From this point on this step will be omitted, but the student is urged to perform the calculations 

 necessary in each case to reach the terminal dates recorded. 



