GLYPHS REPRESENTING INITIAL SERIES, SHOWING USE OF BAR AND DOT NUMERALS AND HEAD-VARIANT PERIOD GLYPHS—STELA 3, TIKAL
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGYBULLETIN 57 PLATE 11
GLYPHS REPRESENTING INITIAL SERIES, SHOWING USE OF BAR AND DOT NUMERALS AND HEAD-VARIANT PERIOD GLYPHS—STELA A (EAST SIDE), QUIRIGUA
This Initial Series is extremely important, because it records the earliest contemporaneous[[148]] date yet found on a monument[[149]] in the Maya territory.
In plate [11] is figured the Initial Series from the east side of Stela A at Quirigua.[[150]] The introducing glyph appears in A1-B2 and the Initial-series number in A3-A5. The student will have little difficulty in picking out the clasped hand in A3, the oval in the top of the head in B3, the fleshless lower jaw in A4, the mouth curl in B4, as the essential characteristic of the cycle, katun, tun, and uinal heads, respectively. The kin head in A5 is the banded-headdress variant (compare fig. [34], i, j), and this completes the number, which is 9.17.5.0.0. Reducing this by means of Table [XIII] to units of the first order, we have:
| A3 = | 9 × | 144,000 = | 1,296,000 |
| B3 = | 17 × | 7,200 = | 122,400 |
| A4 = | 5 × | 360 = | 4,680 |
| B4 = | 0 × | 20 = | 1,800 |
| A5 = | 0 × | 1 = | 0 |
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| 1,420,200 | |||