172 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT -COPAN. 
above 5 and probably under 11. The tun-sign and coefficient in A2a are 
partially effaced, although enough remains of the latter to show that it must 
have been either 14 or 19, 7. ¢., either 4 dots and 2 bars or 4 dots and 3 bars. 
The uinal-sign, a2) |. h., is entirely effaced, but very fortunately its 
coefficient, A2b u. h., is well preserved. This is a head-variant numeral, 
showing the fleshless lower jaw clearly. The rest of the head has no other 
death’s-head characteristics, and it would seem as though this number must 
be from 13 to 19 inclusive.! Of these, 13, 15, 16, 18, and 19 may probably 
be eliminated, since this head resembles none of the known forms for these 
numbers, and there are left only 14 and 17. The head in a2 u. h. looks 
very much like the latter. Note the scroll under the eye, and the large 
ornament which may be a continuation of it in front of the forehead, the 
typical pupil, and the Roman nose. Compare this head with the forms for 
17 shown in Morley, 1915, figure 53, or Bowditch, 1910, plate 17. The best 
reading for the uinal coefficient, therefore, is 17, and next 14, although 
IO, 13, 15, 16, 18, and 19, and even o, should be considered as remoter possi- 
bilities in the order named. 
The kin-sign and coefficient at B2a are very clear. The latter is surely 
either II, 12, or 13, with either 11 or 12 preferable to 13. As will appear 
later, this number can only be 11. The next glyph, B20, is Glyph G, the first 
sign of the Supplementary Series. The next glyph-block, c1, is missing, all 
except a small part of its right-hand edge, which appears on the left side of 
Fragment Y. Although pi ts much effaced, it doubtless presented Glyphs 
X and B of the Supplementary Series.? c2 is missing, all but its right-hand 
edge, which shows a part of the day-sign of the Initial Series terminal date; 
the last glyph of the Supplementary Series doubtless was at c2a. 
The most important glyph on Fragment Y is p2a, the month of the 
Initial Series terminal date. In spite of some little weathering, this may be 
surely identified as either 9 Mol or 14 Mol, with the latter as the preferable 
reading. Gathering together these data, we have for this Initial Series: 
AI Initial Series introducing glyph 
Bid 9 cycles 
BD 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 katuns 
Azad 14 or Ig tuns 
A2b- 17, 14, '10,03,.15.10,.10,.Fo,ono-umals 
Boa it kins? 
C2b ? 
D2a 9 or 14 Mol 

1 While the numerals 13 to 19 inclusive invariably have the fleshless lower jaw, with the exception of 13, for 
which there are two forms, they very rarely show other death’s-head characteristics like the head for 10, which, 
in addition to the fleshless lower jaw, usually has the truncated nose, prominent upper teeth, and large bony eye- 
socket. 
2 As shown in plate 20, a, pt looks more like Glyph A of the Supplementary Series than Glyphs B or X._ This 
is probably due to faulty drawing, as Glyph A was almost certainly at c2a, now lost. This fragment (Y) is in very 
bad condition. 
§ Our inspection of the text showed that the kin-coefficient might be either 11, 12, or 13, but as the month- 
coefficient in D2a is surely 9 or 14, the kin-coefficient can only be 11, since 11 is the only one of these three numbers 
which, if counted forward from a day Ahau (i. ¢., 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu from which all Initial Series start; see Morley, 
1915, p. 136), can possibly reach a month-coefficient of 9 or 14. The other two readings, therefore, 12 and 13, are 
impossible values here. 
