. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. U3. Face numerals for 2i>. By this we ascertain that the unusual numerals (glyphs 4 and 3)prefixed to the chuen and day synlbols, each of which consists of ascroll above, a hand in the middle, and a bean-shaped character below,denote naught (figure 144, number 7). The face numeral prefixed tothe day Ahau (figure 129 6) resembles that denoting IG (see figure 216 MAYAN CALENOAR SYSTEMS 1311 h, c), excepting that it is without the skeleton jaw, thus appar-ently conflrmiug Goodmans stateme
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. U3. Face numerals for 2i>. By this we ascertain that the unusual numerals (glyphs 4 and 3)prefixed to the chuen and day synlbols, each of which consists of ascroll above, a hand in the middle, and a bean-shaped character below,denote naught (figure 144, number 7). The face numeral prefixed tothe day Ahau (figure 129 6) resembles that denoting IG (see figure 216 MAYAN CALENOAR SYSTEMS 1311 h, c), excepting that it is without the skeleton jaw, thus appar-ently conflrmiug Goodmans statement that this eharaeteristic hasthe value of 10. In figure Hi are shown some forms of the symbolsfor naught (0). Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in some of the types are offrequent occurrence in the inscriptions, as are also numbers 7 and 8.
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