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A of their corresponding Supplementary Series, the month-signs again 
being suppressed. In all three, both the main signs (each containing three 
small circles), and the coefficients are the same, the latter being 6. Although 
both coefficient and glyph differ from the one at Copan, the use appears to be 
so similar at both places that even although the meanings of these passages 
are unknown the parallel appears complete. 
The foregoing was introduced to show that the glyph recorded after 
Glyph A of the Supplementary Series on Stela 2, 7. ¢., B7a |. h., was not the 
month-sign of the Initial Series terminal date, and furthermore, that the 
month-sign is probably suppressed in this inscription as in the case of Stela 3. 
Let us gather together, therefore, the data surely deciphered in connection 
with this date: 
A1-B2 _ Initial Series introducing glyph 
A3 Effaced, doubtiess 9 cycles 
B3 10 katuns 
A4 Effaced 
B4 ? uinals 
AS o kins 
BS 6 Ahau 
As the day 6 Ahau occurred 27 times in Katun 10, before attempting to 
decide between these 27 possibilities, it is best to continue the examination 
of our text. 
On the west side of Stela 2 at cs, c7a, is recorded the Period Ending date 
““y2 Ahau 8 Ceh End of Katun 11”’ as follows: 
csb 12 Ahau 
c6éa 8Ceh 
c6b~—sC End of 
c7a =Katun ti 
which may be transcribed into its corresponding Initial Series thus: 9.11.0.0.0 
12 Ahau 8 Ceh.t’ Maudslay’s drawing of this text has two serious errors. 
First, the day coefficient (csb) is shown as 13 (1889-1902, vol. 1, plate 102, 
glyph 34, right half), while in the original it is very clearly 12 (see plate 18), 
the middle dot being noticeably smaller and without decoration; and second, 
the katun coefficient (c7a) is shown as 13 (2bid., Glyph 36 left half), whereas 
in the original it is unmistakably 11, the two outside dots being smaller than 
the middle one, and again without decoration.’ 
These two errors, of course, materially change the resulting date here 
and have led Bowditch to misread this Period Ending as 9.13.0.10.0 13 Ahau 
8 Ceh. 
“On Stela 2 of Copan we find in FS [csb here] 13 Ahau with a knot between the 
day and the number... . . . . On E6 [céa here] we have 8 Ceh and on £7 [c7a 
here] we find the katun glyph with 13 and no ‘ending’ sign. 13 Ahau 8 Ceh is 
g.13.0.10.0, while on F6[c6d here] is the glyph given on plate 19, Hand Signs No. 4.’” 



1For transcribing Period Ending dates into their corresponding Initial Series, see Morley, 1915, pp. 222-233. 
2Both the day and katun coefficients in this text are very unusual. Where plain dots and ornamented ones 
both occur in the same number, the former are almost always numerical and the latter ornamental. The reverse 
is true here, however. 
3See Bowditch, 1910, p. 186. 
