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immediately after the kins of the Initial Series, that is, in Glyph 6, now 
destroyed. The element () between the dots of the month coefficient and 
the month-sign in the{ | upper part of Glyph 12 is probably ornamental 
and not numerical, its) presence being due to the desire to fill the space 
available without distorting the month-sign. Without this ornamental 
element, the month-sign would ‘have been elongated into an unsightly 
shape which has been obviated by the use of this 
decorative element. The hotun which is marked © 
by Stela J is therefore 9.13.10.0.07 Ahau 3 Cumhu. 
Following along the windings of the mat pattern, the next calendric 
glyphs are found at 18 and 19, which respectively record o kins, 10 tuns, and 
13 katuns. This would appear to be but a repetition of the Initial Series 
date with the Cycle 9 understood and the uinal coefficient omitted, thus: 
(9).13.10.(0).o. The omission of the uinal-glyph in a number is exceedingly 
rare. The common practice is to omit the kin-sign and attach its coefficient 
-to the uinal-sign, thus: @DQ0 3.0. But here the uinal-sign is omitted and 
the kin coefficient is [BEV — attached to its own glyph. Such omissions 
occur only whenthesign ( ‘omitted has a coefficient of o, as the uinal 
has here.’ 
The next calendric sign is Glyph 27, which appears to be 7 Lamat, 
not the regular Lamat sign, however, but the Venus-variant already de- 
scribed in connection with Stela 23. (See p. 150.) This character occurs at 
the edge of the mat pattern and has been somewhat mutilated in consequence 
so as to fit the requirements of the space available. Passing over the next 
four glyphs, there is reached in 32 and 33 a distance number composed of Q 
tuns, uinals, and kins. / 
Glyph 320 is very clearly 6 tuns. Glyph 32a is 11 uinals, the dot being 
rather small and squeezed in between the bars and the border, and Glyph 33 
is either 11 or 12 kins. The kin coefficient now appears as 11, but there is 
room for just one more dot to its left, and indeed there is a decided pro- 
tuberance of the stone there as if a dot had been effaced, which would make 
it 12. Moreover, if used at 12, the day 7 Lamat in 27 can be connected by 
this distance-number with the Initial Series terminal date, for if 6.11.12 is 
counted forward from the day 7 Lamat, the day 7 Ahau will be reached. 






1A similar, although not identical, case occurs on Altar U here at Copan. Glyph a2 (Maudslay, 1889-1902 
vol. 1, pl. 98) of this text shows a tun-sign pees surmounted by a coefficient of 13 and preceded by another cf 
2. The context shows that 13 tuns, 2 ~ uinals, and o kins are recorded here. In other words, since the 
kins are at 0, both kin-sign and coefficient as well as the uinal-sign, have been omitted and the uinal 
coefficient is attached directly to the tun- sign (see p. 301). 
Another case of this kind is found on Stela 12 at Yaxchilan. Glyph a6 (Maler, 1903, pl. 76) of 
this text shows a tun-sign surmounted by a coeficient of 10 and preceded by another of 6. The context 
shows that 10 tuns,ouinals, and 6 kins are recorded here. And since the uinals are at 0, both the uinal- 
sign and its coefficient, as well as the kin-sign, have been omitted and the kin coefhcient attached directly 
to the tun-sign. The last two cases are diametrically opposed to each other. In the former the kin- 
sign and coefficient are omitted and the uinal coefficient attached directly to the tun-sign. In the latter the uinal- 
sign and coefficient are omitted and the kin coefficient attached directly to the tun-sign. An inspection of these 
two glyphs reveals no element or character which could indicate this difference, nor indeed did such probably exist. 
The different procedure in each case was doubtless governed by the whim of the sculptor. 

