108 THE ARCHAIC MAYA INSCRIPTIONS. 



2nd glyph. — The two coils do not appear here, only one, but that one is qualified by 

 a curve, signifying 5. As it cannot be added without destroying the 9 element, it 

 must serve as a multiplier— 9x5 = 45x40 = 1800x2 = 3600. The 2 sign here looks 

 something like the ahau character for 4, but the context requires it to be 2. 



3rd glyph. — The symbol that everywhere denotes a 10th ahau or an even 10-ahau 

 reckoning, with the character that commonly constitutes its center placed 

 beside it. As these 10-ahau symbols are often useful in determining the 

 location of dates and the length of reckonings, I give here another of 

 them, which is used interchangeably or in association with the foregoing. 



ELEVENTH AHAU.— 3960 days. 



2nd glyph- — The stone is so badly mutilated that this glyph cannot be restored with 

 certainty. If the characters that are tolerably preserved be 5, 9, and 2, the other 

 should be 44, but I distrust their identity. 



3rd glyph. — There may be two glyphs here, though I think not. The 20-day period 

 being the factor to be raised, it requires 198 for a multiplier to bring it to the 

 necessary total. The character to the left of it being one there is good reason for 

 supposing to represent 73, and the right-hand sign at the top being 18, it follows that 

 there can be no multiplication of these numerals but that they must be added ; hence 

 the remaining characters must aggregate 107. The comb sign — though duplicated 

 here, as in many other places, to give it a more ornamental effect — probably represents 

 but 20. That leaves 87 to be accounted for by the remaining character. It is a sign 

 that occurs many times, but its central part is seldom twice alike, sometimes being a 

 single bar, sometimes two, and again something quite different. Here it has the 

 appearance of the spire in the akbal sign, which stands for 7. On either side is a 

 comb sign for 20, raised to twice that value by a line of dots. It is possible, therefore, 

 that the two together may represent 80, the particular center part in this instance 

 raising the full value of the character to 87. 



TWELFTH AHAU.— 4320 days. 



2nd glyph. — At first view the principal factors appear to be identical with the 

 characters representing 108 and 18. But the ball in the center of the first is double, 

 and there is cross-hatching on both, which may modify the meaning. The character 

 at the bottom seems to be only a beginning sign, though its form is somewhat unusual. 

 If the right-hand sign be 18 and the subfix nothing, the other character must repre- 

 sent 240 ; but there is too much uncertainty involved to warrant confidence in this 

 deduction. 



2>rd glyph. — Here again we are nonplussed. We know the bouquet sign for 6 (the 

 same as that over the symbol for Zac) and the ymix character for 5 ; but the latter has 



