Nor does the lower part of the two columns lead me to the desired goal. As
it seems to consist of several groups, I will first combine 11ab and 12ab.
I look upon 11a as denoting 20, and with regard to 11b I have already
expressed the surmise in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie XXIII, page 153,
that it may mean 8760 = 24 × 365, _i.e._, three Venus-solar periods. That
would be 20 × 8760 = 480 × 365 = 175,200. The Moan in 12a may have the
value 13, for this number is so often combined with the Moan. As we saw
under page 51, 12b is = 18,980; 13 × 18,980 = 246,740. Accordingly the four
signs taken together may mean 421,940 = 1156 × 365.
The second group, from 13a to 15b, refers, on the other hand, to the year
of 360 days. First 13a = 144,000, having in 13b the unknown multiplier,
which we have already seen in 3a and 8a. Then follows in 14a, 15 × 7200 =
108,000; in 14b, 9 × 360 = 3240; in 15a, a 20 with a prefixed 1 (21?); and
in 15b, three days. It would be more correct to place the 1 beside the
following 3. The whole sum would then end with the number 4, which would
agree with the day Kan, the date specified below.
In the third group the 16a = 19 × 18,980 = 360,620, remains a mystery; an
empty outline of a sign is added in 16b.
17ab also forms a group by itself. 17a contains a sign, which rather
suggests the Bacab, upon whose period of 91 days the series belonging here
is based. The Imix in 17b with a superfix is still unintelligible.
The columns end in 18 with the date IX Kan XII Kayab, the starting-point of
the serpent numbers.
Pages 65--69.
I think it very likely that this section bears the same relation to pages
61-64 as pages 46-50 do to 24 and as 53-58 to 51-52. For here, too, a
period of time forming the basis of the earlier section seems to be divided
into smaller parts. On page 64 we recognize as the basis of the series the
number 91, the quarter of the ritual year of 364 days; here we have to do
with the fourfold division of 91 into 13 unequal parts. And the real
starting-points on these pages, as on the previous ones, are the days III
Chicchan and XIII Akbal.
The four series of numbers, the top one of which I have probably correctly
restored from what still remains, are as follows:--
9 XII, 5 IV, 1 V, 10 II, 6 VIII, 2 X, 11 VIII, 7 II, 3 V, 12 IV,
8 XII, 4 III, 13 III.
11 I, 13 I, 11 XII, 1 XIII, 8 VIII, 6 I, 4 V, 2 VII, 13 VII, 6 XIII,
6 VI, 8 I, 2 III.
11 XI, 13 XI, 11 IX, 1 X, 8 V, 6 XI, 4 II, 2 IV, 13 IV, 6 X,
6 III, 8 XI, 2 XIII.
9 IX, 5 I, 1 II, 10 XII, 6 V, 2 VII, 11 V, 7 XII, 3 II, 12 I, 8 IX,
4 XIII, 13 XIII.
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