[163] The student will note also in connection with this glyph that the pair of comblike appendages usually found are here replaced by a pair of fishes. As explained on pp. [65]-[66], the fish represents probably the original form from which the comblike element was derived in the process of glyph conventionalization. The full original form of this element is therefore in keeping with the other full-figure forms in this text.
[164] For the full text of this inscription, see Maudslay, 1889-1902: I, pls. 66-71.
[165] The student should remember that in this diagonal the direction of reading is from bottom to top. See pl. [15], B, glyphs 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, etc. Consequently the upper half of 13 follows the lower half in this particular glyph.
[166] For the full text of this inscription see Hewett, 1911: pl. XXII B.
[167] A few monuments at Quirigua, namely, Stelæ F, D, E, and A, have two Initial Series each. In A both of the Initial Series have 0 for the coefficients of their uinal and kin glyphs, and in F, D, E, the Initial Series which shows the position of the monument in the Long Count, that is, the Initial Series showing the katun ending which it marks, has 0 for its uinal and kin coefficients.
[168] In 1913 Mr. M. D. Landry, superintendent of the Quirigua district, Guatemala division of the United Fruit Co., found a still earlier monument about half a mile west of the main group. This has been named Stela S. It records the katun ending prior to the one on Stela H, i. e., 9.15.15.0.0 9 Ahau 18 Xul.
[169] For the full text of this inscription see Holmes, 1907: pp. 691 et seq., and pls. 34-41.
[170] For a full discussion of the Tuxtla Statuette, including the opinions of several writers as to its inscription, see Holmes, 1907: pp. 691 et seq. The present writer gives therein at some length the reasons which have led him to accept this inscription as genuine and contemporaneous.
[171] For the full text of these inscriptions, see Seler, 1902-1908: II, 253, and 1901 c: I, 23, fig. [7]. During his last visit to the Maya territory the writer discovered that Stela 11 at Tikal has a Cycle-10 Initial Series, namely, 10.2.0.0.0. 3 Ahau 3 Ceh.
[172] Missing.