. An introduction to the study of the Maya hieroglyphs . Fig. 81. The Initial Series, Secondary Series, and Period-ending date on Altar S, Copan. The end of Cycle 10 in glyph 8a is merely redundancy. The writerbelieves that 4 Ahau 13 Yax indicates the present time ofAltar S rather than 7 Ahau 18 Zip, and that consequentlythe latter date was prophetic in character, as was the same dateon Zoomorph G at Quirigua. One reason whica renders this prob- BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 57 PLATE 23. INITIAL SERIES, SECONDARY SERIES, AND PERIOD-ENDING DATES ON STELA 3, PIEDRAS
. An introduction to the study of the Maya hieroglyphs . Fig. 81. The Initial Series, Secondary Series, and Period-ending date on Altar S, Copan. The end of Cycle 10 in glyph 8a is merely redundancy. The writerbelieves that 4 Ahau 13 Yax indicates the present time ofAltar S rather than 7 Ahau 18 Zip, and that consequentlythe latter date was prophetic in character, as was the same dateon Zoomorph G at Quirigua. One reason whica renders this prob- BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 57 PLATE 23. INITIAL SERIES, SECONDARY SERIES, AND PERIOD-ENDING DATES ON STELA 3, PIEDRAS NEGRAS MOELBT] INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OP MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 233 able is that the sculpture on Altar S very closely resembles, thesculpture on Stelse A and B at Copan, both of which date 4 Ahau 13 Yax. A possible explanation of the record ofCycle 10 on this monument is the following: On the date of thismonument, 4 Ahau 13 Yax, just three-fourths of Cycle 9had elapsed. This important fact would hardly have escaped theattention of the old astronomer-priests, and they may have used thismonument to point out that only a quarter cycle, 5 katuns, was leftin Cycle 9. This concludes the discussion of Cycle-10 Period-endingdates. The student will note in the preceding example (fig. 81) thatInitial-series, Secondary-series, and Period-ending dating have allbeen used together in the same text, glyphs 1-4 recording an Initial-series date, glyphs 6a and 7, a Secondary-series date, and glj^jhs 7and 8
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