238 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 57 



by counting forward 8.4.19 from 11 Imix 19 Muan, the Initial-series 

 value of the latter maybe calculated by subtracting 8.4.19 from the 

 Initial-series value of the former: 



9.17. 0. 0. 13 Ahau 18 CumhTi 



8. 4.19 

 9.16.11.13. 1 11 Imix 19 Muan 



And since the date 11 Imix 19 Muan was reached by counting for- 

 ward 1.1.16.15 from 7 Cimi 9 Zotz, the Initial-series value of the latter 

 may be calculated by subtracting 1.1.16.15 from the now known 

 Initial-series value of the former: 



9.16.11.13. 1 11 Imix 19 Muan 



1. 1.16.15 

 9.15. 9.14. 6 7 Cimi 9 Zotz 



Although this latter date is not recorded in the text, the date next 

 preceding the number 1.1.16.15 is 6 Cimi 4 Tzec, which corresponded 

 to the Initial Series 9.15.6.14.6 6 Cimi 4 Tzec, as we have seen, a 

 date which was exactly 3 tuns earlier than 7 Cimi 9 Zotz, 9.15.9.14.6- 

 9.15.6.14.6 = 3.0.0. 



The inscription on the west side closes then in Al8 B18 with the 

 record that Katun 17 ended on the date 13 Ahau 18 Cumhu. The 

 inscription on the east side of this same monument opens with this 

 same date expressed as an Initial Series, 9.17.0.0.0 13 Ahau 18 Cumhu. 

 See figure 82, A1-A6, A7,^ and AlO. 



The reiteration of this date as an Initial Series, when its position 

 in the Long Count had been fixed unmistakably on the other side of 

 the same monument by its record as a Period-ending date, together 

 with the fact that it is the latest date recorded in this inscription, 

 very clearly indicates that it alone designated the contemporaneous 

 time of Stela E, and hence determines the fact that Stela E was a 

 hotun-marker. This whole text, in so far as deciphered, reads as 

 follows : 



West side: 9.14.13.2 4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab Plate 24, ^,Al-B6,B8b 



6.13. 3 Plate24, ^,B10b-Alla 

 9.15. 0. 0. 4 Ahau 13 Yax Plate 24, A, Bll 



[5. 0. 0] Undeclai-ed 



9.15. 5. 0. 10 Ahau 8 Chen 



1.14. 6 Plate 24, B, B12 

 9.15. 6.14. 6 6 Cimi 4 Tzec Plate 24, B. Al3b B13a 



[3. 0. 0] Undeclared 



1 The first glyi)h of the Supplementarj' Series, B()a, very irregularly stands between the kin period glyph 

 and the day part of the terminal date. 



2 Incorrectly recorded as 12. See pp. 247, 24S. 



