. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ering of thesesupjjosed periods, as we shall soon see, is without jjroper grounds. The initial series of the inscription on the east side of Stela P (figure150), same locality as the preceding, is given as follows: 54-9-9-10-0-0,2 Ahau 13 Poja. The numbers attached to the cycle, katun, and ahauare face characters, those attached to the chuen and day sj^mbols areof the type shown in numbers 4, 5, and 6, figure 144, but much abbre-viated, and those of the terminal date are of the ordinary form.
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ering of thesesupjjosed periods, as we shall soon see, is without jjroper grounds. The initial series of the inscription on the east side of Stela P (figure150), same locality as the preceding, is given as follows: 54-9-9-10-0-0,2 Ahau 13 Poja. The numbers attached to the cycle, katun, and ahauare face characters, those attached to the chuen and day sj^mbols areof the type shown in numbers 4, 5, and 6, figure 144, but much abbre-viated, and those of the terminal date are of the ordinary form. Themonth sj-mbol, which Goodman interprets Pop, is apparently avariation of usual type. As enough of the prefix to the chuensymbol remains to indicate full count or naught (0), it maj beassumed that the prefix to the daj symbol, of which there seems to 224 MAYAN CALENDAK SYSTEMS [ETH. ANN. 22 be a slight remnant, is the same; therefore the terminal date will bethe first day of an ahaii. The skeleton jaw in the prefix to the ahausymbol, not well shown in Maudslays drawing (plate LXXXix of his. Fig. 150. Part of *ii>tion on tlio east side of Stela P, Copan. work, part 4), but distinct in his photograph, would indicate 10 or somenumber above 10 (see figure 150). The face numerals of the cycle andkatun are evidently the same, and one of them shows quite distinctly THOMAS] INITIAL SERIES OF COPAN INSCKIPTIONS 225 the circle of dots on tlie cheek, indicating 9 (see figure 132). There-fore the series so far as satisfactorily made out—assuming the numberattached to the day Ahau to be 2—is as follows: ?-9-0-?-0-0, 2 Ahau13 Pop. This is sufficient to determine the series, and shows theabove rendering to be correct.
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