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Applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 141, respectively) to this 

 number, the termmal date reached will be 10 Ahau 8 Chen, which is 

 nowhere recorded in the text (see fig. 79, A). 



The Initial Series corresponding to this date, however, may be 

 calculated from the Initial Series wliich we have assigned to the date 

 12 Caban 5 Kayab : 



9.14.13. 4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab 



0.11.13. 3 

 9.15. 5. 0. 10 Ahau 8 Chen 



Although the date 9.15.5.0.0 10 Ahau 8 Chen is not actually recorded 

 at Quirigua, it is reached on another monument by calculation just 

 as here. It has a peculiar fitness here on Stela J m that it is just 

 one katun earlier than the Initial Series on this monument (see fig. 

 78), 9.16.5.0.0 8 Ahau 8 Zotz. 



The other Secondary Series on this monument (see fig. 79, B) 

 appears at B1-A2, and records 18 tuns, 3 uinals, and 14 kins, which 

 we may write thus: 18.3.14. As in the preceding case, the date 

 followhig this number in B2-A3 is its startmg pouit, not its terminal, 

 date, a very unusual feature, as has been explamed. This date is 

 6 Cimi 4 Tzec — compare B2 with the sign for Cimi in figure 16, h, i, 

 and A3 with the sign for Tzec in figure 19, ^, Ji — and as far as Stela J 

 is concerned it is not fixed in the Long Count. However, elsewhere 

 at Quirigua tliis date is recorded in a Secondary Series, which is 

 referred back to an Initial Series, and from this passage its corre- 

 sponding Initial Series is foimd to be 9.15.6.14.6 6 Cimi 4 Tzec. 

 Reducing the number recorded in B1-A2, 18.3.14, to imits of the 

 first order, we have: 



A2 = 18X360 = 6, 480 

 B2= 3X 20= 60 

 B2 = 14 X 1 = 14 



6,554 



Applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 141, respectively) to the 

 number, the terminal date reached will be 8 Ahau 8 Zotz, which does 

 not appear in figure 79, B. The Initial Series corresponding to this 

 date may be calculated as follows: 



9.15. 6.14. 6 6 Cimi 4 Tzec 

 18. 3.14 



9.16. 5. 0. 8 Ahau 8 Zotz 



But this was the Initial Series recorded on the reverse of this monu- 

 ment, consequently the Secondary-serifes dates, both of which have pre- 



