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Identifier: bulletin571915smit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
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r two head-variant niunerals, whosevalues are known to be 12. These three head numerals are shownside by side in figure 52, t-^, t being the form in A3 above, insertedin this figure for the sake of comparison. Although these three headsshow no single element or characteristic that is present in all (see p.100), each is very similar to the other two and at the same time isdissimilar from all other head-variant numerals. This fact warrantsthe conclusion that the head in A3 represents the numeral 12, and iftliis is so the starting point of the Initial Series imder discussion is4 Ahau 8 Zotz. 2. Aside from the fact that 12 seems to be the best reading of thehead in A3, and consequently that the starting point of this numberis 4 Ahau 8 Zotz, the writer believes that 4 Ahau 8 Zotz should be 1 Similarly, it could be shown that the use of every other possible value of the cycle coeflBcient willnot give the tenninal date actually recorded. bfla BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 57 PLATE 16
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INITIAL SERIES AND SECONDARY SERIES ON LINTEL 21, YAXCHILAN MORLEY) INTEODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 207 selected, if for no other reason than that another Initial Series hasbeen found which proceeds from this same date, while no other InitialSeries Imown is counted from either 7 Ahau 3 Mol or 3 Ahau 18 Mac.As we have seen in discussing the preceding text, from the east sideof Stela C at Quirigua (fig. 77, A), the Initial Series there recordedwas counted from the same starting point, 4 Ahau 8 Zotz, as the InitialSeries from the Temple of the Cross at Palenque, if we read the latteras 12.19.13.4.0. Tliis coincidence, the writer believes, is sufficient towarrant the identification of the head in A3 (fig. 77, B) as the headnumeral 12 and the acceptance of tliis Initial Series as proceedingfrom the same starting pomt as the Quirigua text just described,namely, the date 4 Ahau 8 Zotz. With these two examples the dis-cussion of Initial-series texts will be closed. Texts Recording I

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