508 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
year-bearers of the Maya years in which the corresponding tun-endings fell, and 
the corresponding Christian years as well. Now, if this series is correct, and if we 
can pick out one of these 13 tun-endings as that of a katun-ending as reli then a 
direct correlation with the Long Count may be effected, as noted above. 
This page of the Oxkutzcab chronicle 1s shown in figure 72, and the writer is 
indebted to Mr. William Gates for the transcription and translation of the Maya 
text given on the preceding page, as well as for the following notes. 
Notes sy Mr. GareEs. 
Letters restored where the margin is torn are in italics in the Maya text. Dots mark 
the places where something is gone that can not be restored. No attempt has been made 
to change or correct, even when the meaning requires it; the reading at beginning of line 
2 should thus be ahau, though the manuscript does not yield the needed letters. In the 
transcription hyphens have been added to assist the reading. 
‘The words pop in line 5 and Jahun in line 24 are crossed out in the manuscript by Juan 
Xiu, and corrected to ceh and hun respectively (marked by an asterisk (*) in the Maya text.) 
There are a number of errors in the day and month numerals, difficult to account for 
if Juan Xiu was copying a text in European letters, but easy to understand if he was trans- 
' lating and copying from a “very ancient book in characters, an analtehe.” Under 1545 
oxlahun cauac, 13 Cauac, should be ox cauac, 3 Cauac. 
The errors in the months will best appear from a tabulation, the first column showing 
what is actually written, and the second column what is clearly demanded by the whole text. 
In this connection, we find the first five lines much confused. An Ahau date for the tun is 
needed before the beginning of the fifth line, and also the 1536 in the margin is to be repeated 
before the afios in the middle of the fifth line. Then the 1534 in the first line should be 
brought down to before the 5 Kan in the second, throwing the first tun and month date back 
under the year 1533, in default of which correction we would have 1534 supplied with one 
year-bearer and two tun dates. Making the above allowances in arrangement, we have: 
As in the original. Corrected. 
1533 18 Yaxkin. 4 Cauac 2 Ahau~ 2 Mol. 
1534 5 Kan Ahau-— 7 Yaxkin. 5 Kan 11 Ahau 17 Yaxkin. 
TS3k 6 Muluc Saat 11 Ceh. 6 Muluc 7 Ahau_ 12 Yaxkin. 
1536 + hal b 3 Ahau 7 Yaxkin. mulx 3 Ahau 7 Yaxkin. 
1537 8 Cauac 12 Ahau- 2 Yaxkin. 8: Cauac a2 °Ahau> p20 Yaxkur 
1538 9 Kan 8 Ahau 16 Xul. 9 Kan 8 Ahau 17 Xul. 
1539 10 Muluc 4 Ahau_ 11 Xul. 10 Muluc 4 Ahau_ 12 Xul. 
1640/5 SLi alx 12 PAA ea ie {yeiz 13) Aliag 9e7 nul 
Isat" 512, Gaude g Ahau = 2 Xul. 12 Cauac g Ahau 2 Xul. 
1642) 14 on 5 Ahau_ 16 Tzec. 13 Kan 5 Ahau 17 T[zec. 
1543 1 Muluc 1 Ahau_ 11 Tzec. 1 Muluc 1 Ahau_ 12 Tzec. 
1544 2x 1o Ahau_ 6 Tzec. ZA 1o Ahau_7 Tzec. 
iS45 14 alae 6 Ahau 1 Tzec. 4 Cauac 6 Ahau 2 Tzec. 
In the 13 years we therefore have one error in day-numerals, which may be disregarded; 
no errors at all in the Ahau count; seven cases where the month-numeral is minus 1, one 
where it is minus 10, four where it is correct, and one where it is plus 1; besides the confusion 
between Ceh and Yaxkin at the beginning. It is curious that in more than half of the entries 
this minus-1 error should occur; one can hardly suspect Juan Xiu of misreading the numerals 
regularly with just that error, but is tempted to surmise a confusion in transcribing, between 
two systems, one that of the original, the other one familiar to the Xiu, into which he sought 
to transfer the entries as pointed out elsewhere in this Appendix by Morley. The 18 
Yaxkin is, however, the only figure correct under the old count, and the 1, 6, 11, 16 coefh- 
cients are wrong for either the old or the new. 
One further possible error should be noted, of especial interest in the present connection. 
We have already found vucte for vuclahunte (under 1534), and oxlahun, a glaring error for 
ox (under 1545); and if then we see in Jahun gip, 10 Zip as the day of the month in 1536 when 
the Otzmal event took place, a scribal error for vaxaclahun ¢ip, or 18 Zip, we have the exact 
day of the month given by the Mani, Tizimin, and first Chumayel texts, for the death of the 
water-bringer Napot Xiu. 
