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A Truncated Initial Series from Xcalumkin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael P. Closs
Michael P. Closs*
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Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada K1N 9B4
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Abstract

The Maya text on an all-glyphic stone column now in the Museo del Camino Real in Hecelchakan, Campeche, Mexico, is deciphered. The inscription consists of an unusual truncated Initial Series with an associated Tun-Ahua statement. Arguments are given to justify assigning a Xcalumkin provenance to the monument. The Initial Series is only the third such record known from this site. Other epigraphic highlights include a rare head variant formation of the numeral for 16 by tandem heads for 6 and 10 and a new version of the head variant for 2. A summary of the chronological information available from the site of Xcalumkin is included.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1983, pp. 115 - 122
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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