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Image Not Available for Correspondence from George Byron Gordon to Charles P. Bowditch concerning whether the Maya used an ordinal system.
Correspondence from George Byron Gordon to Charles P. Bowditch concerning whether the Maya used an ordinal system.
Image Not Available for Correspondence from George Byron Gordon to Charles P. Bowditch concerning whether the Maya used an ordinal system.
Object Number 2018.1.28
Display Title Correspondence from George Byron Gordon to Charles P. Bowditch concerning whether the Maya used an ordinal system.
Descriptions
Object Description One letter accompanied by Gordon's publication, "On the Use of Zero and Twenty in the Maya Time System". Annotated by CP Bowditch.
Department Archival, Paper
Date July 11, 1902
Artist Dr. George Byron Gordon
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge
Quantity 1

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