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roacliod will bt' 12 Caban 5 Ka yab. This the 

 student will readily rocot^nize in B6-BSb. 

 the form in B8a being the "month sign 

 indicator," hereshown with a head-variant 

 coefficient 10. Compare B6 with figure 

 16, a', y, and B8b A\dth figure 19, d'-f. 

 This Initial Series therefore should read 

 as follows: 9.14.13.4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab. 

 Following down the text, there is reached 

 in BlOb-Alla, a Secondar3^-series number 

 consisting of 3 kins, 13 uinals, and 6 tuns, 

 that is, 6.13.3. Counting this number for- 

 ward from the date next preceding it in 

 the text, 12 Caban 5 Kayab, the date 

 reached will be 4 Ahau 13 Yax, which the 

 student wall find record(Hl in Bll. Com- 

 pare the month form in Bllb with figure 

 19, q, r. But since the Initial-series value 

 of 12 Caban 6 Kayab is ImowTi, the Initial- 

 series value of 4 Ahau 13 Yax may be cal- 

 culated from it as follows: 



9.14.13. 4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab 



6.13. 3 

 9.15. 0. 0. 4 Ahau 13 Yax 



The next Secondaiy-series munber ap- 

 pears m Bl2, plate 24, B, and consists of 

 6 kins, 14 uinals, and 1 tvm, that is, 1.14.6.^ 

 The student will find that all efforts to 

 reach the next date recorded in the text, 

 6 Cimi 4 Tzec in Al3b Bl3a, by counting 

 forward 1.14.6 from 4 Ahau 13 Yax in Bll, 

 the date next precedmg this number, will 

 prove unsuccessful. How^ever, by count- 

 ing hackward 1.14.6 from 6 Cimi 4 Tzec, he 

 will find the date from w hich th<^ count 

 proceeds is 10 Ahau 8 Chen, though this 

 latter date is now here recorded in this text. 

 We have seen elsewiiere, on Stela F for ex- 

 ample (pi. 19, A, B), that the date 6 Cimi 

 4 Tzec corresponded to the Initial-series 

 number 9.15.6.14.6 ; consequently, we may 

 calculate the position of the unrecorded 



Fig. 82. The Initial Scries on Stela E ^ 

 (east side), Quirigua. 



This Secondary-series number is doubly irregular. In the 

 first place, the kin and uinal coefficients are reversed, the latter 

 standing to the left of its sign instead of above, and in the second place, the uinal coefficient, although it is 

 14, has an ornamental dot between the two middle dots. 



