Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices: Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372Thomas, Cyrus
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Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices: Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
Thomas, Cyrus
Codex Dresdensis Maya; Maya language
As this series is a very important one in the study of the relations of
the numerals to one another and to the days indicated, an exact copy of
it is given in Figs. 363-370, each figure representing a page and the
whole standing in the same order as in the original. The red numerals and
red symbols are, as usual, given in outline as an indication of their
color.
[Illustration: FIG. 363. Copy of Plate 51, Dresden Codex.]
[Illustration: FIG. 364. Copy of Plate 52, Dresden Codex.]
[Illustration: FIG. 365. Copy of Plate 55, Dresden Codex.]
[Illustration: FIG. 366. Copy of Plate 54, Dresden Codex.]
[Illustration: FIG. 367. Copy of Plate 55, Dresden Codex.]
[Illustration: FIG. 368. Copy of Plate 56, Dresden Codex.]
[Illustration: FIG. 369. Copy of Plate 57, Dresden Codex.]
[Illustration: FIG. 370. Copy of Plate 58, Dresden Codex.]
In order to assist those not familiar with the numeral and day symbols,
the entire series is given in the following tables in names and Arabic
and Roman numerals, as usual. The obliterated symbols and numbers are
restored.
TABLE VI.--_Table of numeral and day symbols._ (Plate 51_b_.)
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14 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17
16 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 16 | 5
14 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 10
IV Ik. | XII Cauac.| VII Cib. | II Been.| X Oc. | II Ezanab.
V Akbal.|XIII Ahau. |VIII Caban. |III Ix | XI Chuen|III Cauac.
VI Kan. | I Ymix. | IX Ezanab.| IV Men. |XII Eb. | IV Ahau.[VI-1]
VIII | VIII | VIII | VIII | VIII | VII
17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 8
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[VI-1] The symbol in this case is that of Been, but this is a manifest
error, as Ahau follows Cauac.
TABLE VII.--_Table of numeral and day symbols._ (Plate 52_b_.)
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| 17 | 18 | 18 | 19
| 14 | 5 | 14 | 4
| 8 | 5 | 2 | 19
| XI Cib. | VI Been.| I Oc. | IX Manik.
[Picture.] | XII Caban. | VII Ix. | II Chuen.| X Lamat.
| XIII Ezanab. |VIII Men. |III Eb. | XI Muluc.
| VIII | VIII | VIII | VIII
|17? (18)[VII-1]| 17 | 17 | 17
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[VII-1] The variation from the rule found here is explained a little
further on.
TABLE VIII.--_Table of numeral and day symbols._ (Plate 53_a_.)
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