have been 2 Ix, 2 Cauac, 2 Kan, and 2
Muluc. I must confess that this explanation is not satisfactory; it is
thrown out simply as a suggestion.

Running through the middle division of Plates 30 and 31 is this series:

3, VIII; 3, VIII; 3, VIII; 3, VIII
5, Oc 5, Men 5, Ahau 5, Chicchan.

Commencing with 8 Oc (omitting for the present the 3 and 5 to the left)
and counting thence 3 months and 5 days we reach 8 Men; 3 months and 5
days more and we reach 8 Ahau; 3 months and 5 days more bring us to 8
Chicchan, and 3 months and 5 days more bring us again to 8 Oc, thus
completing a cycle of 260 days (13 months) and also accounting for the
first pair of numerals--3 and 5 in the series. It appears to be a pretty
general rule to commence a series of this type with the difference
between the numbers of the series. One reason for this is apparent: that
is, to complete the cycle of 260 days, to which most, if not all, of
these groups appear to refer.

Dr. Foerstemann says in regard to this line:[293-1]

This is the place where I first discovered how numbers of several
figures are to be read; here for the first time I understood that
the figure 3 with 5 below it is nothing but 3 x 20 + 5, or 65, and
that they mean nothing else than the interval between the days, such
as we have frequently met with so far; 4 x 65 is again the well
known period of 260 days.

Plate 3 appears to be isolated and unfinished; at least it presents
nothing on its face by which it can be directly connected with any other
plate of the codex, notwithstanding the change made by Dr. Foerstemann, by
which 45 was brought next to it. The day column in this case is in the
middle compartment of the upper division and consists of the following
days: Ahau, Eb, Kan, Cib, Lamat; the red numeral over it is I. The
numerals and days are arranged as follows:

(?) (?) 4, V(?) 15, XIII

I
Ahau
8, XIII Eb
Kan
Cib 14 (?)
Lamat

As numerals belonging to two different series are never found in the same
compartment it is fair to assume that those of the middle and right
compartments pertain to one series. But what shall we say in reference to
those in the left compartment, the upper pair of which is almost entirely
obliterated? So far we have found no