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9.15. 9.14. 6 



1. 1.16.15 



9.16.11.13. 1 



8. 4.19 



9.17. 0. 0. 



End of Katun 17 



East side: 9.17. 0. 0. 



7 Cimi 9 Zotz 



11 Imix 19 Muan 



13 Ahau 18 Cumhu 



13 Ahau 18 Cumhu 



Undeclared 

 Plate24,5,Al4bB14 

 Plate 24, 5, Al 5b B15a 

 Plate24, j5,Al7bB17a 

 Plate 24, B, Al8 

 Plate 24, B, BIS 

 Figure 82, A1-A6, A7, 

 AlO 



Comparing the summary of the inscription on Stela E at Quirigua, 

 just given, with the summaries of the inscriptions on Stelae J and F, 

 and Zoomorph G, at the same city, all four of which are shown side 

 by side in Table XVII,^ the interrelationship of these four monu- 

 ments appears very clearly. 



Table XVII. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF DATES ON STEL^ E, F, AND J 

 AND ZOOMORPH G, QUIRIGUA 



In spite of the fact that each one of these four monuments marks a 

 different hotun in the Long Count, and consequently dates from a 

 different period, all of them go back to the same date, 9.14.13.4.17 

 12 Caban 5 Kayab, as their original starting point (see above). This 

 date would almost certainly seem, therefore, to indicate some very 

 important event in the annals of Quirigua. Moreover, since it is 

 the earliest date found at this city which can reasonably be regarded 

 as having occurred during the actual occupancy of the site, it is not 

 improbable that it may represent, as explained elsewhere, the time 

 at which Quirigua was founded. ^ It is necessarv, however, to cau- 



' In this table the numbers showing the distances have been omitted and all dates are shown in terms 

 of their corresponding Initial-series numbers, in order to facilitate their comparison. The contempo- 

 raneous date of each monument is given in bold-faced figures and capital letters, and the student will 

 note also that this date not only ends a hotun in each case but is, further, the latest date in each text. 



2 The Initial Series on the west side of Stela D at Quirigua is 9.16.13.4.17 8 Caban 5 Yaxkin, which was 

 just 2 katuns later than 9.14.13.4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab, or, in other words, the second katun anniversary, 

 if the term anniversary may be thus used, of the latter date. 



