. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . in a positionwhere it was impossible to mistake its significance—for they occur on a Tikal tablet,the only signs between a date and a reckoning, the context proving the two charactersto be synonyms. But we are not left to infer the meaning of the determinative solelyfrom that circumstance. In the table showing the series of ahaus and their equivalentsigns, on Stela J, Copan, the 10th ahau is represented by this identical character; sothere can be no question about its meanin
. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . in a positionwhere it was impossible to mistake its significance—for they occur on a Tikal tablet,the only signs between a date and a reckoning, the context proving the two charactersto be synonyms. But we are not left to infer the meaning of the determinative solelyfrom that circumstance. In the table showing the series of ahaus and their equivalentsigns, on Stela J, Copan, the 10th ahau is represented by this identical character; sothere can be no question about its meaning, or about its being used as a determinativein this particular case. 100 DECLARATIVE SIGNS. This class of signs is very large. It includes not only most of the characters used attimes directively or determinatively, but all of the period symbols become declarativeby having a beginning sign affixed to them. Thus, the bouquet sign, when attachedto Ahau to indicate it begins an ahau period, renders that clay symbol a declarative;and, similarly, these glyphs are all declaratives, proclaiming alike the beginning of a. 12th katun; for, though the last appears to denote the 10 Ahau to be simply thebeginning of a katun, we know that during the cycle in which the date in questionoccurs no katun but the 12th begins with 10 Ahau. But the signs commonly made use of for declarative purposes are different fromthose ordinarily employed to denote the same periods. The following are the onesmost frequently used in connection with the katun:
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