. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ay-s, we reach 13 Muluc, 2 Tzec, year 3 is a correct result, and indicates that thered numerals were inserted as a correction. On plate 69 we find a series (figure 16) repre-sented by symbols of the same form as those inthe inscriptions. The glyphs Al, Bl representthe first dateâ4 .\hau S Cumhu (eighteenthmonth)âwhich must fall in the year 8 Ben. AtAT. B7 is the dateâ9 Kan 12 Kayah. Theintermediate counters, comparing with those dis-covered by Goodman in the inscriptions, are a
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ay-s, we reach 13 Muluc, 2 Tzec, year 3 is a correct result, and indicates that thered numerals were inserted as a correction. On plate 69 we find a series (figure 16) repre-sented by symbols of the same form as those inthe inscriptions. The glyphs Al, Bl representthe first dateâ4 .\hau S Cumhu (eighteenthmonth)âwhich must fall in the year 8 Ben. AtAT. B7 is the dateâ9 Kan 12 Kayah. Theintermediate counters, comparing with those dis-covered by Goodman in the inscriptions, are asfollows: Ao, 15 katuns; B5, 9 ahaus: A6, 4^^^^^^â B6. 4 days. There are other characters/^^^ IjtVSL: with numerals between the two dates, some of^~?^^iC3^/ which may be hereafter explained, but none ofthese, as will be shown hereafter, are customar-ily counted as part of the time T may have occasion to refer again to this series and theexactly similar one on plate 61. I shall only show at piesent the wayin which it is to be used, and call attention to the exact similarity of. Fig It;âIiirt of iiliiti-Dresden codex. THOMAS] PLATE 69, DRESDEN CODEX 731 the time symbols to those of the inscriptions already figured and thosepresented farther on. By referring to a and h of figure lU, showing the katun symbols,the strong resemblance to glyph A5 of the series now under consid-eiation is at once seen. The resemblance of B5 to h and l. figur(> !t,showing the ahau signs, is also apparent, as is A6 to the chuen symbol,figure S. Bii is the kin or day syni))ol. Here it seems the numbersdenoting days are not attached to the chuen symbol, as is usual in theinscriptions, the day. in tlie abstract sense, having its appropriateS3nil)ol. to which the niunei-als denoting the number of days areattached. As the usual order in which the glyphs are to be read is from thetop downward, by twos and twos where there are two colunms. we willtake tlie first pair. Al and Rl. as the date
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