Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; (1904) (14598014769)

Identifier: mexicancentralam28bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P(ickering), 1842- (from old catalog) ed Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, 1859- (from old catalog) Sapper, Karl Theodor, 1866- (from old catalog) Dieseldorff, Erwin P. (from old catalog) Wesselhoeft, Selma, (from old catalog) tr Parker, Alberta M., (from old catalog) tr Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Maya calendar Calendar
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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red period, especially as this length of timenearly corresponded with the tonalamatl. The moon sign in B 13must be closely related to A 13. In regard to the four characters, A 14 to B 15,1 am unable to decidewhether they are to be regarded as the end of this introduction or asthe preliminaries of the real subject-matter of the inscription. With A 16 begins the regular alternation of dates and periods,which continues to the end of this tablet. The points of time, or calendar dates, as I proved long ago, havethe formula: I 17; 18, 17th month. This formula designates a certain specified day recurring after aperiod of 52 years, that is, the first day of the 13-day week when itis the seventeenth of the 20-day period and the eighteenth of the sev-enteenth so-called month. The time periods, on the other hand, have as the first sign that forthe 20-day period, which we have already found in B 6. There is a BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY A. B. C. D. E. F. S. T. BULLETIN 28 PLATE XLIII U. V. W. X.
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10 11 12131415 16 17 NSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET OF THE CROSS-PALENQUE forstemann.) INSCRIPTION ON THE CROSS OF PALENQUE 551 number both above and before it. The first states how many suchperiods are meant; the second, how many additional single days.Then follow the signs for 360, 7,200, and occasionally also for144,000 days, provided with numbers which indicate how many suchperiods there are. In accordance with this the following is the actual framework ofthe inscription: Date Interval 1 A16B16 D1C2 2 D3C4 D5C6 3 C9D9 D10 4 CUD 11 D13-D14 5 E1F1 F5-F6 6 E9F 9 E 10-F 11 7 F12E13 F 15-F 16 8 T2S3 T3 9 S4T4 S6T6 10 T8S9 T9 11 S10T10 S12T12 12 S14T14 S15 13 T17U1 U3-TJ4 14 U7V7 U8-U9 15 U10 V10 V13-V14 16 U17 V17 W1-W2 17 X5 W6 X6-W7 18 X 10W 11 X 11-X 12 19 W 14X14 W15X15 Of the pairs of glyphs, which together express a certain date,the first (A 16, D 3, C 9, etc.) must always designate one of the 20days, the second (B 16, C 4, D 9, etc.) one of the 18 so-called months.This observation wil