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In my article "Zur Entzifferung IV" I discussed this remarkable page in detail and in what follows I shall conform to that treatise, though omitting many things which since then have become the established possession of science, and shall endeavor to shed a still clearer light upon other points.

This page presents in brief the subject which is more fully treated of on the front of the second part of the Manuscript (pages 46-60).

The first problem it presents is to find periods in which the solar year (365 days) is brought into accord with the apparent Venus year (584 days). This takes place in a term of 2920 days = 8 × 365 = 5 × 584. Sequent to this is the still higher aim of bringing the Tonalamatl (260) into harmony with this period, which is accomplished in 37,960 days (= 146 × 260 = 104 × 365 = 65 × 584).

The revolution of the moon (28), the ritual year (364 = 28 × 13) and the apparent revolution of Mercury (115) come in question as secondary matters.

I will now give an approximate reproduction of the page:—

Hieroglyphs.
1 17 29 151,840 113,880 75,920 37,960
2 18 30 (4 × 37,960) (3 × 37,960) (2 × 37,960) (13 × 2920)
3 19 31 I Ahau I Ahau I Ahau I Ahau
4 20 32 185,120 68,900 33,280 9100
5 21 33 I Ahau I Ahau I Ahau I Ahau
6 22 34 35,040 32,120 29,200 26,280
7 23 35 (12 × 2920) (11 × 2920) (10 × 2920) (9 × 2920)
8 24 36 VI Ahau XI Ahau III Ahau VIII Ahau
9 25 37 23,360 20,440 17,520 14,600
10 26 38 (8 × 2920) (7 × 2920) (6 × 2920) (5 × 2920)
11 27 39 XIII Ahau V Ahau X Ahau II Ahau
12 28 40
13 11,680 8,760 5,840 2920
14 (4 × 2920) (3 × 2920) (2 × 2920)
VII Ahau XII Ahau IV Ahau IX Ahau
15
16 2,200 1,366,560 1,364,360
IV Ahau I Ahau I Ahau
8 Cumhu 18 Kayab 18 Zip.

First let me observe that I have restored the four large numbers at the top, which are almost entirely effaced, as follows:—

1 15 10 5
1 16 10 5
1 6 16 8
14 0 0 0.
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