MORLET] INTEODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEEOGLYPHS ^19 



Passing over B6-A10, the meanings of which are unknown, we 

 reach in BlO the Secondary-series number 13.9.9. Reducing this to 

 units of the first order, we have: 



B6b = 13X360 =4, 680 

 B6a= 9X 20= 180 

 B6a= 9X 1= 9 



4,869 



Assuming that our starting point is the date next preceding this 

 number in the text, that is, the Initial-series terminal date 12 Caban 

 5 Kayab in B5-A6, and applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 

 141, respectively), the terminal day reached will be 6 Cimi 4 Tzec. 

 This date the student will find recorded in plate 19, 5, Bllb-Al2a. 

 Compare Bllb with the sign for Cimi in figure 16, h, i, and Al2a with 

 the sign for Tzec in figure 19, g, Ji. Moreover, since the Initial-series 

 value of the startmg point 12 Caban 5 Kayab is known, the Initial- 

 series value of the terminal date 6 Cimi 4 Tzec may be calculated 

 from it: 



9.14.13. 4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab 

 13. 9. 9 



9.15. 6.14. 6 6 Cimi 4 Tzec * 



In A15 is recorded the date 3 Ahau 3 Mol (compare Al5a with fig. 16, 

 h', i', and Al5b with fig. 19, m, n) and in Al7 the date 4 Ahau 13 Yax 

 (compare Al7a with fig. 16, e'-g' and Al7b with fig. 19, ([, r). This 

 latter date, 4 Ahau 13 Yax, is recorded elsewhere at Quirigua in a 

 Secondary Series attached to an Initial Series, where it has the Initial- 

 series value 9.15.0.0.0. This value we may assume, therefore, belongs 

 to it in the present case, giving us the full date 9.15.0.0.0 4 Ahau 13 

 Yax. For the present let us pass over the first of these two dates, 

 namely, 3 Ahau 3 Mol, the Initial Series of which as well as the reason 

 for its record here will better appear later. 



In Bl7-Al8a is recorded another Secondary-series number com- 

 posed of 3 kins, 13 uinals, 16 tuns, and 1 katun, which we may write 

 thus: 1.16.13.3. The student will note that the katun coefficient in 

 Al8a is expressed by an unusual form, the thumb. As explained on 

 page 103, this has a numerical value of 1. Again, our text presents 

 another irregular feature. Instead of being counted either forward 

 or backward from the date next preceding it in the text; that is, 

 4 Ahau 13 Yax in Al7, this number is counted from the date following 

 it in the text, like the two Secondary-series numbers in Stela J, just 

 discussed. This starting date recorded in AlSb Bl8a is 12 Caban 5 

 Kayab, which, as we have seen, is also the date recorded by the 

 Initial Series in plate 19, A, A1-A6. We are perfectly justified in 



1 This is the text in which the Initial-series value 9.15.6.14.6 was found attached to the date 6 Cimi 4 Tzec. 



