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THE ARCHAIC MAYA INSCRIPTIONS. 



AHAU COUNT. 



13 ahaus : 4680 days. 



9 chuens 180 „ 



9 days 9 » 



4,869 days. 



YEAR COUNT. 



51st year 39 days. 



13 years 4,745 „ 



13th year 85 „ 



4,869 days. 



To explain the foregoing computation. Turning to the annual calendar we find that 



12 Caban-5 Kayab occurs in the 51st year, and that there are 39 remaining days in that 

 year. To these add 4,745, the number of days in thirteen years, which a glance at the 

 working-chart will show us is the greatest number of years there can be in the period. 

 This will bring us around to the 13th year of the annual calendar. There are yet 85 days 

 left, which will take the count to 4 Tzec, where we find 6 Cimi. So the record is 

 correct. Eleven glyphs, mostly illegible, succeed. One of them is probably the 360 

 bissextile sign. It will be noticed that the computation has just passed the date where 

 an even ahau of bissextiles accrues. As the next date has no reckoning in the ordinary 

 form leading up to it, I suspect it to be one of the cases where the count is expressed 

 in another way. The date is 3 Ahau-3 Mol. An unusual character follows, after two 

 intervening glyphs, which I think indicates that the date is the beginning of a 10th 

 ahau, as it is. Next comes the sign denoting it to be ten ahaus removed from 

 4 Ahau-13 Yax — the two glyphs between, in my judgment, indicating the same period 

 in a different manner. Here is a full stop. The next reckoning reads : 1 — 16 — 13 X 3, 

 from 12 Caban-5 Kayab, the initial date, to 1 Ahau-3 Zip, and 10 ahaus more to 



13 Ahau — and, if the rest of the glyphs were not obliterated, we should probably find 

 the continuation to be — 18 Cumhu, the beginning of the 17th katun. We will test 

 this reckoning also : — 



AHAU COUNT. 



YEAR COUNT. 



1 katun 7,200 days. 



16 ahaus 5,760 „ 



13 chuens , 260 ,, 



3 days 3 „ 



51st year 39 days. 



36 years 13,140 „ 



36th year 44 „ 



13,223 days. 



13,223 days. 



We find this to be correct also. By looking at the chronological calendar it will be 

 seen that from 1 Ahau-3 Zip to 13 Ahau-18 Cumhu it is just 10 ahaus, so that need 



