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6.<br />

Fig.9.25<br />

Fi1.9.25<br />

Initial series Introductory Glyph calendrical long count date<br />

Late Pre--Classic_perigd (Maya southern regions), and Classic period (Maya<br />

lowlands). Follow<strong>in</strong>g the open<strong>in</strong>g Initial Series date, further glyp"hs<br />

recorded a "distance number". "oversize Introductory Glyph"(ióp),<br />

followed by a count of 9 baktuns, L katun, 0 tuns, and 9 u<strong>in</strong>fus (róws r-s)^tó<br />

arrive at the calendar round date of 6 Ahau i.3 yaxk<strong>in</strong> (row 4).<br />

Draw<strong>in</strong>g courtesy of the Quirigua project of The university Museum,<br />

University of Pennsylvania, reproduced as Fig. 4, p. Z0 <strong>in</strong><br />

sharer, 1990, Quirigua: A Classic Maya centir e its sculptures.

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