MORLEY— MAYA SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES 



which event the coefficients I- 19 would probably indicate the position 

 of such a group in a longer series. 1 



III. 



The distribution of the coefficients of Glyph D is shown in Table 



TABLE III 



No 

 coefficient, 

 probably I 



10 



II 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



19 



NO. 



6 

 12 



15 

 20 



32 

 33 

 37 

 39 

 49 

 5i 

 57 

 65 

 73 

 74 



NO. 



8 

 5«| 



9 



53 



63 



NO. 

 II 

 36 



44 

 66 



NO. 



5 

 43 

 68 



79 



NO. 



4 i?i 



NO. 



3 

 13 

 50 

 76 



NO. 



4 



NO. 

 71 



NO. 



35 



NO. 

 I 



NO. 



75 



NO. 



34 



These coefficients show no striking maxima except in the first 

 column, i.e., those cases where the sign occurs by itself, but regarded 

 by the writer as equivalent to a coefficient of unity. No reason for 

 such a heavy predominance is apparent, nor in fact for the absence of 

 the coefficients 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, and 16. In these latter cases, however, 

 additional texts will probably be found showing such numbers with 

 this glyph. 



Except at Palenque, and then only in text No. 28, whenever 

 Glyph E is recorded as well as Glyph D, no other sign ever stands 

 between them ; and since no case has been observed of a sign standing 

 between Glyphs C and D, it seems probable that all three of these 

 characters, C, D, and E, stand in very close relation to each other 

 and are to be interpreted together. 



1 It is interesting to note in this connection that the bar-and-dot coefficients of Glyph D never 

 rise above 19, which in itself is in keeping with the Maya vigesimal system of numeration as 

 expressed everywhere else in the inscriptions. The coefficient 20 never occurs, since 20 units of 

 all orders except the second (i.e., the uinals, which take but 18 to make 1 of the period next higher) 

 were written as I of the order next higher. Thus if the latter hypothesis were correct, 20 lunar 

 groups would have been written as 1 of the lunar period next higher. 



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