MUKLEY] INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 227 



The foregoing Period-ending dates have all been in Cycle 9, even 

 though this fact has not been recorded in any of the above examples. 

 We come next to the consideration of Period-ending dates which 

 occurred in cycles other than Cycle 9. 



In plate 22, A, is figured a Period-ending date from the tablet in 

 the Temple of the Cross at Palenque.^ In glyplis 1 and 2 appears 

 the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu (compare the month form in glyph 2 with 

 fig. 19, g', V), and in glyph 3 an ending sign (compare glyph 3 with 

 the ending signs in fig. 37, l-q, and with the zero signs in fig. 54). 

 There follows in glyph 4, Cycle 13. These four glyphs record the fact, 

 therefore, that Cycle 13 closed on the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, the start- 

 ing point of Maya chronology. Tliis same date is again recorded on 

 a round altar at Piedras Negras (see pi. 22, B)} In glyphs 1 and 2 

 appears the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, and in glyph 3a the endhig sign, 

 which is identical with the ending sign in the preceding example, 

 both having the clasped hand, the subfix showing a curl infix, and 

 the tassel-like postfix. Compare also figure 37, l~q, and figure 54. 

 Glyph 3b clearly records Cycle 13. The dates in plate 22, A, B, are 

 therefore identical. In both cases the cycle is expressed by its 

 normal form. 



In plate 22, C, is figured a Period-ending date from the tablet in the 

 Temple of the FoHated Cross at Palenque.^ In glyph 1 appears an 

 ending sign in which the hand element and tassel-like postfix show 

 clearly. This is followed in glyph 2 by Cycle 2, the clasped hand on 

 the head variant unmistakably indicating the cycle head. Finally, 

 in glyphs 3 and 4 appears the date 2 Ahau 3 Uayeb (compare the 

 month form with fig. 19, i').* The glyphs in plate 22, C, record, there- 

 fore, the fact that Cycle 2 closed on the date 2 Ahau 3 Uayeb, a fact 

 which the student may prove for himself by converting this Period- 

 ending date into its corresponding Initial Series and solving the same. 

 Since the end of a cycle is recorded here, it is evident that the katun, 

 tun, uinal, and kin coefficients must all be 0, and our Initial-seri(^s 

 number will be, therefore, 2.0.0.0.0. Reducing this to units of the 

 1st order and proceeding as in the case of Initial Series, the terminal 

 date reached will be 2 Ahau 3 Uayeb, just as recorded in glyphs 3 

 and 4. The Initial Series corresponding to this Period-ending date 

 will be 2.0.0.0.0 2 Ahau 3 Uayeb. 



These three Period-ending dates (pi. 22, A-C) are not to be consid- 

 ered as referring to times contemporaneous with the erection of the 

 monuments upon which they are severally inscribed, since they pre- 



» See Maiidslay, 1S89-1902: iv, pi. 75, glyphs D3-C.5. 



2 See Miller, 1901: ii. No. 1, pi. 8, glyphs A1-A2. 



8 See Maiidslay, op. eit., pi. 81, glyphs C7-D8. 



4 It will be remembered that Uayeb was the name for the xma kaha kin, the 5 closing days of the year. 

 Dates which fall in this period are exceedingly rare, and in the inscriptions, so far as the writer knows, 

 have been found only at Palenque and Tikal. 



