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Signs for the units of a date.
Also known as: Long Count glyphs, Baktun katun tun
The Maya glyphs naming the successive time periods of the Long Count calendar.
Name the periods of the Long Count — the day, the twenty-day unit, the year-like period and its multiples — in a written date.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Count elapsed days from a fixed starting point rather than naming a position in a repeating cycle, which makes the Long Count an absolute chronology and the reason Maya inscriptions can be dated to the day.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
The correlation between the Long Count and the Gregorian calendar rests on a scholarly argument rather than a documented synchronism, and competing correlations differ by decades.
The correlation constant is contested; the most widely used is not the only one proposed.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
A column of cartouche-like glyph blocks, each pairing a numeral with a period sign, read from the largest period downward.