Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . PAINTED CLAY IMAGE OF THE GOD MACUIL XOCh SELER COLLECTION, ROYAL BULLETIN 28, PLATE XLII. _ (FIVE FLOWER), FROM TEOTITLAN DEL CAMINO UM OF ETHNOLOGY, BERLIN loRSTRxMANN.] INSCRIPTION ON THE CROSS OF PALENQUE 549 point of Maya chronology, denotes the present day or at least a daythat is near the present. (2) The broader inscriptions, the framework of which consists ofcalendar dates, between Avhich large numbers are interspersed thatstate the interval between each two dates. Between these dates andintervals there are som
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . PAINTED CLAY IMAGE OF THE GOD MACUIL XOCh SELER COLLECTION, ROYAL BULLETIN 28, PLATE XLII. _ (FIVE FLOWER), FROM TEOTITLAN DEL CAMINO UM OF ETHNOLOGY, BERLIN loRSTRxMANN.] INSCRIPTION ON THE CROSS OF PALENQUE 549 point of Maya chronology, denotes the present day or at least a daythat is near the present. (2) The broader inscriptions, the framework of which consists ofcalendar dates, between Avhich large numbers are interspersed thatstate the interval between each two dates. Between these dates andintervals there are some other glyphs, for the most part still wliollyunexplained. The Cross inscription belongs to this second class. Leaving aside the center of this tablet as not pertinent to my i)res-ent task, I will now give here the six columns of glyphs on each side,containing seventeen glyphs each, to be seen, on the left and riglitof the central sacrificial scene (plate xliii). Thus we see here 201 glyphs. There would be 17X12=204 werenot the first four places above on th(^ left occupied by a single char-acter, the superscription, such as is customary in inscriptions of bo
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