Identifier: cu31924103130260 (find matches)
Title: An introduction to the study of the Maya hieroglyphs
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Subjects: Mayan languages Mayas Maya language Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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th figures 16, a, i, and 19, d-f,respectively. The Initial Series therefore reads 9.14.13.4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab.* 1 Bracketed dates are those which are not actually recorded but which are reached by numbers appearingin the text. 2 Although not recorded, the number 1.14.6 is the distance from the date 9.15.5.0.0 reached by the Second-ary Series on one side to the starting point of the Secondary Series on the other side, that is, 9.15.6.14.6 6 Ciml 4 Tzec. 3 For the lull text of this inscription see Maudslay, 1889-1902: II, pis. 37, 39,40. For convenience infiguring, the lower parts of columns A and B are shown in B instead of below the upper part. Thenumeration of the glyph-blocks, however, follows the arrangement in the original. < This is one of the two Initial Series which justified the assumptions made in the previous text thatthe date 18 Caban 5 Eayab, which was recorded there, had the Initial-series value 9.14.13.4.17, as here. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 57 PLATE 19
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INITIAL SERIES U) AND SECONDARY SERIES iB) ON STELA F (WEST SIDE), QUIRIGUA MOKLET) INTKODTJCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 219 Passing over B6-A10, the meanings of which are unknown, wereach in BlO the Secondary-series number 13.9.9. Reducing this tounits of the first order, we have: B6b = 13x360=4, 680B6a= 9X 20= 180B6a= 9X 1= 9 4,869 Assuming that om- starting point is the date next preceding thisnumber in the text, that is, the Initial-series terminal date 12 Caban5 Kayab in B5-A6, and applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and141, respectively), the terminal day reached will be 6 Cimi 4 Tzec.This date the student will find recorded in plate 19, B, Bllb-Al2a.Compare Bllb with the sign for Cimi in figure 16, h, i, and Al2a withthe sign for Tzec in figure 19, g, h. Moreover, since the Initial-seriesvalue of the starting point 12 Caban 5 Kayab is known, the Initial-series value of the terminal date 6 Cimi 4 Tzec may be calculatedfrom it: 9.14.13. 4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab13. 9. 9 9

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