TitoMAsi METHOD OV FlNDmG DATES INDICATED BY NUMEKALS. 27 



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The first I select is found iii the lower division of Plate XXVI. The 

 column is as here shown — Fig. 6 — the days are Ahau, Eb, Kan, Cib, Lamat. 

 In addition to these red numerals, we find in the space occu- 

 pied by the figures five black and five red numer- 

 rals, each thirteen. -Why there should be five Table X. 

 pairs of numerals, each denoting the same num 

 ber, I confess myself unable to decide; I shall 

 therefore leave this question to be discussed here- 

 after, if I find any reasonable explanation Ac- 

 cording to the interpretation already given, the 

 red numei-als indicate the days, the black the 

 months. Hunting out the years as in the pre- 

 ceding example we find them to be as follows: 



13 Ahau. 13 Eh. 13 Kan. 13 Cib. 13 Lamat. 



Years..6Cauac. 7 Cauac. 2Cauac. 3 Cauac. 11 Cauac. 

 Years.. 4 Kan. 32 Kan. 7 Kan. 8 Kan. 3 Kan. 

 Years.-OMuluc. 4Muluc. 5 Mnluc. 13Muluc. IMuluc. 

 Years.. llx. 2Ix. 10 Ix. 5Ix. C Ix. 



Fig. 0. These years are marked with a star and the 



group surrounded by a continuous dark line on the an- 

 nexed table of years, No. X. For reasons hereafter given 

 I adopt the system which commences the cycle with 1 

 Cauac. 



As Plate XXVII relates obviously to the same gen- 

 eral subject, I select the left-hand da}^ column of its upper 

 division as our next example. The days are Ahau, Eb, 

 Kan, Cib, and Lamat, the same as in the preceding exam- 

 ple, the red or day numeral 11, the black or month nu- 

 meral 13. 



These give us the following years: 



These are also marked on the annexed table with a star, but the group 

 is suriounded by a dotted line. In order to enable the reader to understand 



