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THE ARCHAIC MAYA INSCRIPTIONS. 



FACE SIGN FOR 19. 



The 10 death-face and the 9 forehead ornament are the characteristics of this face. 

 The lines and dots on the cheek — as already stated, in speaking of the 9 symbol — are 

 used too promiscuously to be relied on as distinguishing traits. 



FACE SIGN FOE 20. 



The hand on the cheek, the thumb or wrist forming the lower jaw, usually charac- 

 terizes the face sign for 20. Generally the face is a death's head, identical with the 

 symbol for 10, the outstretched hand evidently implying another 10 that is to be 

 added to it. I judge that the number 20 is arrived at by addition instead of 

 multiplication, not only from the sign for addition upon the hand and the fact that 

 the preceding compounds have all been formed in that way, but from the character of 

 the last face in the list, where the death's head is surmounted by another distinct sign 

 for 10. Though the face symbol for the cycle is also a sign for 20 — as its substitution 

 for the 20-day character proves — I have not included it in the above list ; for, notwith- 

 standing that to a casual observer it might appear identical with the ordinary 20-sign, 

 it has certain peculiarities that separate it and appear to restrict its use solely to that 

 of a cycle symbol. 



