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date 10 Ahau 8 Chen in the Long Count from this known Initial 

 Series, by subtracting ^ 1.14.6 from it: 



9.15.6.14.6 6 Cimi 4 Tzec 



1.14.6 

 9.15.5. 0.0 10 Ahau 8 Chen 



We now see that there are 5 tuns, that is, 1 hotun, not recortled here, 

 namely, the hotun from 9.15.0.0.0 4 Ahau 13 Yax, to 9.15.5.0.0 10 

 Ahau 8 Chen, and further, that the Secondary-series number 1.14.6 

 in Bl2 is counted from the unexpressed date 10 Ahau 8 Chen to reach 

 the terminal date 6 Cimi 4 Tzec recorded in Al3b Bl3a. 



The next Secondary-series number appears in Al4b B14 and 

 consists of 15 Idns, 16 uinals, 1 tun, and 1 katun, that is, 1.1.16.15. 

 As in the preceding case, however, all efforts to reach the date fol- 

 lowing this number, 11 Imix 19 Muan in Al5b Bl5a, by counting it 

 forward from 6 Cimi 4 Tzec, the date next preceding it in the text, 

 will prove unavailing. As before, it is necessary to count it hack- 

 ward from 11 Imix 19 Muan to determine the starting point. Per- 

 forming this operation, the starting point will be found to be the 

 date 7 Cimi 9 Zotz. Since neither of these two dates, 11 Imix 19 

 Muan and 7 Cimi 9 Zotz, occurs elsewhere at Quirigua , we must leave 

 their corresponding Initial-seiies values indeterminate for the present. 



The last Secondary Series in this text is recorded in Al7b Bl7a 

 and consists of 19 kins,^ 4 uinals, and 8 tuns. Reducing this number 

 to units of the first order and counting it forward from tlie date next 

 preceding it in the text, 11 Imix 19 Muan in Al5b B15a, the terminal 

 date reached will be 13 Ahau 18 Cumhu, which the student will find 

 recorded in Al8. Compare the month sign ^\dth figure 19, g' , h'. 

 But immediately following this date in BlSa is Katun 17 and in the 

 upper part of BlSb the hand-denoting ending. These glyphs Al8 

 and B18 would seem to indicate, therefore, that Katun 17 came to 

 an end on the date 13 Ahau 18 Cumhu. That they do, may be proved 

 beyond all doubt b}^ changing this period ending into its corresponding 

 Initial-series nmnber 9.17.0.0.0 and solving for the terminal date. 

 This will be found to be 13 Ahau 18 Cumhu, which is recorded in 

 A18. This latter date, therefore, had the following position in the 

 Long Count: 9.17.0.0.0 13 Ahau 18 Cumhu. But having determined 

 the position of this latter date in the Long Coimt, that is, its Initial- 

 series value, it is now possible to fix the positions of the two dates 

 11 Imix 19 Muan and 7 Cimi 9 Zotz, which we were obliged to leave 

 indeterminate above. Since the date 13 Ahau 18 Cumhu was derived 



' Since we counted backward 1.14.6 from 6 Cimi 4 Tzec to reach 10 Ahau 8 Chen, we must subtract 1.14.6 

 from the Initial-series value of 6 Cimi 4 Tzec to reach the Initial-series value of 10 Ahau 8 Chen. 



2 It is obvious that the kin and uinal coefficients are reversed in A 17b since the coefficient above the uinal 

 sign is very clearly 19, an impossible value for the uinal coefficient in the inscriptions, 19 uinals always 

 being written 1 tun, 1 uinal. Therefore the 19 must be the kin coefficient. See also p. 110, footnote 1. 



