our Table II), as heretofore explained, the
reader will observe that the interval from 8 Cib to 7 Cimi is 4 months
and 10 days; from 7 Cimi to 10 Cib is 12 months and 10 days; from 10 Cib
to 5 Kan is 8 days; from 5 Kan to 7 Ahau is 11 months and 16 days; from 7
Ahau to 6 Oc, 4 months and 10 days; from 6 Oc to 9 Ahau, 12 months and 10
days; from 9 Ahau to 4 Lamat, 8 days; from 4 Lamat to 6 Kan, 11 months
and 16 days, and so on to the end of the series on Plate 50. Referring to
the codex the reader will observe at the bottom of each plate and
directly under--that is to say, in the same vertical lines as the day
columns--two lines of red numerals. It is impossible to determine these
in Kingsborough's copy (except on Plate 50), but they can readily be made
out on the photographed plates. (See the copy of Plate 50, given in
Fig. 362.) Those on a single plate are as follows:

{ XI, IV, XII, 0,
{ XVI, X, X, VIII.

The 0 here represents a red, diamond shaped symbol.

If the upper line represents months and the lower line days, these
numbers will indicate the intervals between the columns and are properly
placed. For example, the XI and XVI signify 11 months and 16 days, the
interval between the last column of the preceding plate and the first
column of the plate on which they stand; the IV and X, the interval of 4
months and 10 days between the first and second columns; XII and X, the
interval of 12 months and 10 days between the second and third columns;
and 0, VIII, the interval of 8 days between the third and fourth columns.
It is apparent from this that the red, diamond shaped symbol represented
by 0 over the VIII denotes a cipher or nought, a conclusion reached
independently by Foerstemann.

If this supposition as to the arrangement of the series and the
signification of these numbers be correct, it is apparent that the
plates are to be taken in the order in which they are paged, that is,
from left to right, as the others so far noticed, an inference borne
out by another fact now to be mentioned.

Immediately below each of these four column day series are four lines of
characters (hieroglyphics), and immediately under the latter three
horizontal lines of black numerals, with here and there a red, diamond
shaped symbol inserted. As these numerals stand directly in the vertical
lines of the day columns, it is possible the two have some connection
with each other, a supposition somewhat strengthened by what ha