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THE ARCHAIC MAYA INSCRIPTIONS. 



3. PAX— 160 days. 



Here we have the unmistakable 5-sign qualified by two overspreading upshoots. 

 which combined must have the value of 32, whatever they may be singly. I do not 

 think the triple subfix to this symbol has any significance, any more than in Yax and 

 Zac. Its use is inconstant, and it probably serves as a mere pedestal, or is a meaningless 

 survival of the 72-sigu employed with this symbol in its ahau and katun capacity. 



9. KAYAB .— 180 days. 



The square cross, a sign for 18, appears to derive no additional value from being 

 incased in a turtle's head, as in the glyph from the codices the multiplier is plainly 10 

 — IS X 10=180. The subfix of the other glyph being merely a beginning sign, it 

 follows that the postfix must also be a sign for 10. 



10. CUMHU.-200 days. 



The lean symbol in this glyph being equivalent to 8, the superfix must necessarily 

 represent 25—8x25=200. 



