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necessary to compare this text glyph by glyph with the Supplementary 
Series from the neighboring Temple of the Foliated Cross. In figure 30 these 
two Supplementary Series are shown side by side, the upper line being that 

Fic. 30.—Two Supplementary Series at Palenque, from: a-f, Temple of the Foliated Cross; 
a'-f’, Temple of the Cross. 
from the Temple of the Foliated Cross and the lower line that from the 
Temple of the Cross. Commencing at the right’ and reading from right to 
left, the last glyph in each line, f and f’, respectively, are the same, namely, 
Glyph A, the last glyph of the Supplementary Series, shown with a head- 
variant coefficient of 10 in f and with a bar-and-dot coefficient of 9 in f’.. The 
next glyphs (to the left), e¢ and ¢’, are also the same, being in each case the 
next to the last glyph of the Supplementary Series, Glyph B. The next 
glyphs, d and d’, are different, as would be expected. As the writer has 
shown elsewhere,’ the third position from the right in Supplementary 
Series is occupied by a number of different glyphs, hence the name variable 
glyph (1. e., Glyph X) by which the signs occupying this position have been 
designated. The next glyphs, c and c’, are the same, being Glyph C of the 
Supplementary Series, regularly Beads in the fourth place from, the right. 
Let us pass over the next glyph, J, in the upper line, and: ‘the next two, b”, 
b’, in the lower line, and come to the last glyph in each'litie,.a and: a”*respec- 
tively, which are the same, Glyph F of the Supplementary Series. Imme- 
diately preceding these signs in the two texts from which these passages are 
taken are the month-signs of their respective Initial Series terminal dates. 
In other words, barring the glyphs passed over, the signs in the two passages 
are the same and stand, moreover, in the same relative order to each other. 
Let us next examine the glyphs omitted in our preliminary inspection, 
b, b’, and b’’. The former, J, is a grotesque head standing on its end—a very 
unusual position for head-variants—with a coefficient of Io, 7. ¢., 2 bars. 
The right-hand glyph of the pair in the lower line, b’’, is exactly the same 
head as the one in J, and also stands on its end in exactly the same unusual 
manner, evidently a characteristic of the glyph, whatever it may be. In the 
lower line, however, at first sight it appears to have no coefficient. 

1 The regularity in the sequence of the glyphs of the Supplementary Series is more apparent reading from 
right to left than vice versa, for which reason this order is followed here. See Morley, 1916, p. 369. 
2 See Morley, 1916, pp. 374-376. 
