HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



No. 21 it is 6; in No. 22 it is 5 joined to the death's head; in No. 23, 

 probably 2; in Nos. 24 and 25, 6; and in No. 26 the coefficient is 

 effaced. 



Let us examine more closely the coefficients in Nos. 17, 20, and 22. 

 In Nos. 17 and 22 the bar-and-dot numeral 5 is joined to the head 

 variant numeral for 10, and in No. 20 the 5 is joined to an element 

 which is probably a substantive for the death's head in No. 17, that 

 is, a substantive for 10. These fives can hardly be multiplied by the 

 tens to which they are attached, since that would give 50, an impossi- 

 ble value for Maya coefficients. It seems highly probable, therefore, 

 that they are to be added to the accompanying tens, giving 15 in 

 each case. These ten glyphs may therefore be interpreted as shown 

 in Table V. 



TABLE v 



No. 17 = 15 kins 



No. 20 = 15 kins? 



No. 24 = 6 kins 



" 18 = 9 " 



21=6 



25 = 6 



" 19 = 6 " 



" 22 = 15 " 



" 23 = 2 " 



" 26 = ? " 



But we have seen that Glyph E itself may in every case be re- 

 duced to a number of kins, and adding these to the kins recorded by 

 the "legged" kin-sign in the Yaxchilan texts, we have the totals of 

 days recorded by these two glyphs as shown in Table VI. 



TABLE VI 



"Legged" kin 

 Glyph 



Glyph E 



Total Kins 



No. 17 15 kins 



17 X 20 = 340 kins 



355 kins 



" 18 9 " 



6 X 20 = 120 " 



129 ' 





" 19 6 " 



7 X 20 = 120 " 



126 ' 





" 20 15 " 



15 X 20 = 300 " 



315 ' 





" 21 6 " 



13 X 20 = 260 " 



266 ' 





" 22 15 " 



11 X 20 = 220 " 



235 ' 





" 23 2 " 



14 X 20 = 280 " 



282 ' 





" 24 6 " 



12 X 20 = 240 " 



246 ' 





" 25 6 " 



12 X 20 = 240 " 



246 ' 





" 26 ? " 



3 X 20 = 60 " 



6? " 



In these cases the total of kins or days does not rise above the 

 year, but elsewhere, in No. 12 for example, it reaches 380 days. The 

 theoretical maximum of the count should be 399, that is, one short of 

 400, which would be recorded as 1 of the unit next higher. 



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