INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERIOD. 247 
Date 7. 
The next step, G, has no decipherable glyphs, and there appear to be 
no dates recorded on it. The next step, however, H, opens with a day, the 
day-sign of which is effaced and the coefficient almost so. Enough remains 
to show that it was a head numeral of unknown value. This same day may 
be repeated in the date in 0, p on the same step, however, toward the right 
of the stairway, the month of which is almost certainly 17 Yaxkin. (See 
figure 38,c.) Unfortunately, the day coefficient and sign are badly weathered. 
The latter must have been either Kan, Muluc, Ix, or Cauac, since only these 
days could have a corresponding month coefficient of 17. The loss of the 
day coefficient, however, prevents further decipherment at this point, but, 
as will appear later in connection with Dates 8 and 9g following, it is probably 
possible to postulate that Dates 7 and 9 on the one band and Dates 8 and to 
on the other are the same, and thus to reach a reading for Date 7. 
Dates 8 AND 9. 
There may be a Secondary Series on Step I at B—p but the glyphs here 
are too badly weathered to distinguish details. At Q on Step I is a day 12?. 
As 12 Muluc is the last day on the left of the bottom step nearby, this day 
in g may possibly be 12 Muluc also. The next step, J, has no dates; the left 
half is fairly well preserved, and the right half sufficiently so to show the 
absence of calendary glyphs. 
It is indeed unfortunate that the next to last step, K, is not in as good 
condition as the step above it. In general, the glyphs on this step are in an 
excellent state of preservation, with the exception of the upper edges, which 
are broken in most places. As the bar-and-dot coefficients were recorded 
above most of the glyphs on this step, most of them are damaged. The 
readings suggested for Dates 8 and 9, therefore, again rest upon a necessary 
postulate, namely, that Dates 7 and 9 on the one hand and Dates 8 and 10 
on the other are the same. 
Date 8. 
Step K opens with a date (see figure 38, d) which the writer believes is 
exactly the same as Date 10 just below it, namely, 12 Muluc 7 Muan. (Com- 
pare figure 38, d, with F and H, plate 26, a, where these resemblances are readily 
apparent.) A similar relationship has already been definitely established 
between Dates 2 and 3 on successive steps above, and probably between 
Dates 4 and 5 on successive steps above, and in view of the striking agree- 
ments developed by comparison of these two dates, the writer believes that 
Date 8 on Step K is 12 Muluc 7 Muan. But in the case of Date Io, as we will 
presently see, an accompanying Initial Series number declares it to have 
been 9.13.18.17-9 12 Muluc 7 Muan. Therefore the same Initial Series value 
probably may be assigned to the 12 Muluc 7 Muan of Date 8 on Step K. 
Following Date 8, there is a Secondary Series in cd, p, and in Ed, probably 
the day from which this series is counted in order to reach Date 8. The day- 
