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script. Such points as these yet remain to be determined, and even 

 may be found to have no bearing on the problem; but it is at least 

 interesting to note that the coefficient 6 occurs less often than any of 

 the other five in both the Supplementary Series and the lunar series of 

 the Dresden Codex. 



There remain to be described the head variant coefficients in the 

 upper half of the glyph, and the ending prefixes or subfixes. The exact 

 classification of the former is an exceedingly difficult matter, because 

 these numerals are usually small in the originals and suffer the most 

 from erosion. Delicate details are only too often entirely lost and the 

 essential characteristics destroyed. Identification becomes difficult, 

 not to say uncertain, and it is necessary to proceed with caution. 



The head variant numeral is occasionally replaced by an element 



'which the writer believes stands for the zero of the series. 



At least no head with the hand for a lower jaw (that is, the head 

 variant for zero) has yet been found in this glyph. Texts showing this 

 element are given in the first column in Table II. 



The head variant for 10 appears to be by far the most common. 

 The heads for 6 and 7 each appear once surely — Nos. 22 and 49 



TABLE II 







Human type of head 

 1, 8, 9, or 12 



4 



6 



7 



10 



NO. 



NO. 



NO. 



NO. 



NO. 



NO. 



NO. 



II 



I 



34 



36 



22 



35? 



12? 



26 



2 



38 



46 





49 



13 



29 



4 



4i 



58? 







14 



31 



5 



42 



60? 







16? 



33 



6 



43 









17 



39 



7 



45 









20? 



54 



8 



48 









23 



77 



9 



5i 









28 



80 



10 

 18 



19 

 21 

 24 



25 



27 



32 



53 

 56 



57 

 61 



7i 

 74 

 76 



78 









37? 

 44 

 47 

 50? 



55 

 62 

 68 



72 



73? 



79 



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