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places where the conditions imposed by these two coefficients are fulfilled, 
namely: 
9.0. 0.0.0 8 Ahau 13 Ceh g.6.10.0.0 8 Ahau 13 Pax 
9.3. 5.0.0 8 Ahau 13 Kankin 9.9. 2.0.0 8 Ahau 13 Zip 
9.5.17.0.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop 9.9.15.0.0 8 Ahau 13 Cumhu 
But p6 more closely resembles Ceh than it does any of these othe1 
month-signs, actually having the superfix of Ceh as its own superfix here 
(compare po with the forms for Ceh in Appendix X), and this Calendar 
Round date therefore probably stands for the full Initial Series 9.0.0.0.0 8 
Ahau 13 Ceh, 7. ¢., the end of Cycle 9. 
This is the second example of the month-sign being a human head. 
(See also the month-glyph, 8 Cumhu on Stela 25, figure 8, and p. 71.) Can it 
be possible that these heads are those of the deities who presided over these 
months? Whether so or not, this is an interesting parallel between Stele 25 
and 15 and may foreshadow the discovery of other examples of the same 
kind. 
When Stela 15 was erected, less than 90 years had elapsed since this 
important date, which must have been held in very lively memory still; at 
all events it appears to have been made a matter of record here. 
The whole inscription on Stela 15 so far as it has been deciphered reads: 
FRONT. 
Fragment 1 A1-B2_ Initial Series introducing glyph 
A3,B3 9 cycles 
A4,B4 4 katuns 
Fragment 2 As, B5 10 tuns 
A6,B6 Ouinals 
Fragment 3 B7 (o) kins 
SIDE. 
Fragment I C3 13 Kayab 
Fragment 2 Ds “End of a tun or a hotun”’ (?) 
Fragment 3 c6,D6 8 Ahau 13 Ceh (9.0.0.0.0) 
Back. 
Fragment 2 F6) “End of a lahuntun,” probably referring to the con- 
temporaneous date of the stela on the other side. 
Because of the fragmentary condition of Stela 15, it is impossible to 
more than approximate the number of glyph-blocks which its inscription 
originally contained, but the three fragments preserved have upward of 4o. 
Stela 15 dates from the fifth lahuntun of Cycle 9, being exactly 2 
katuns later than Stela 24. 
STELA 17 
Provenance: Original position unknown. Found just west of Mound 
2 on the low terrace north of the Great Plaza at the 
Main Structure. Now near Owens’s grave in the 
Great Plaza. (See plate 6.) 
Date: 9.6.0.0.0 9 Ahau 3 Uayeb (?). 
Text, (a) photograph: plate 11, a and b. 
(b) drawing: plate 11, a and b. 
