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Sometimes, however, monuments showing Calendar-round dates stand 

 alone, and in such cases it is almost impossible to fix their dates in the 

 Long Count. At Yaxchilan in particular Calendar-round dating 

 seems to have been extensively employed, and for this reason less 

 progress has been made there than elsewhere in deciphering the 

 inscriptions. 



Errors in the Originals 



Before closing the presentation of the subject of the Maya inscrip- 

 tions the writer has thought it best to insert a few texts which show 



B 



Fig. 84. Texts showing actual errors in the originals: A, Lintel, Yaxchilan; B, Altar Q, Copan; C, 

 Stela 23, Naranjo. 



actual errors in the origmals, mistakes ckie to the carelessness or over- 

 sight of the ancient scribes. 



Errors in the origmal texts may be divided into two general classes : 

 (1) Those which are revealed b}^ inspection, and (2) those which do 

 not appear until after the indicated calculations have been made 

 and the results fail to agree with the glyphs recorded. 



An example of the first class is illustrated in figure 84, A. A very 

 cursory inspection of this text — an Initial Series from a Imtel at Yax- 

 chilan — will show that the uinal coefficient in Cl represents an impos- 

 sible condition from the Maya point of view. This glyph as it stands 



