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Title: Bulletin
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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f columns beingfrom left to right and from top to bottom. For convenience in refer-ring to particular glyphs in the texts, the vertical columns of glyph-blocks are lettered from left to right, thus. A, B, C, D, etc., and thehorizontal rows numbered from top to bottom, thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.For example, in figure 66 the glyph-blocks in columns A and B areread together from left to right and top to bottom, thus, Al Bl, A2B2, A3 B3, etc. When gh^)h-block BlO is reached the next in order 1 As used throughout this work, the word inscriptions is applied only to texts from the monuments. 2 The term glyph-block has been used instead of gljph in this connection because in many inscriptionsseveral dilTerent glyphs are included in one gl\-ph-block. In such cases, however, the glyphs within theglyph-block follow j)recisely the same order as the glyph-blocks themselves follow in the pairs of columns,that is, from left to right and top to bottom. 156 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 57 PLATE 6
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B. STELA 22, NARANJO D. STELA 24, NARANJO GLYPHS REPRESENTING INITIAND DOT NUMERALS AND AL SERIES, SHOWING USE OF BARNORMAL-FORM PERIOD GLYPHS MOKLEY) INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA IIIEROUl.YPllS 157 is Cl, which is followed by Dl, C2 D2, CS 1)3, etc. Ajj:mn, wh(>n ))1()is reached the next in order is El, which is followed by Fl, E2 F2,E3 F3, etc. In this way the order of reading; proceeds from left torij);ht and from to)) to bottom, in paii-s of columns, that is, G H, I J,K Jj, and M N throughout the inscription, antl usually clos(>s withtho glyph-block in the lower right-hand corner, as NlO in figure 66.By this simple system of coordinates any particular glyph in a textmay be reaclily referred to when the need arises. Thus, for example,in figure 66 gly))h « is referred to as D3; gly)^h ^ as F6; glyph y asK4; gly)3h ^ as NlO. In a few texts the glyph-blocks are so irregu-larly placed that it is impracticable to designate them by the abovecoordinates. In such cases the order of

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